Westworld Season 3 was right.
How soon till cult mechanicus is recognized for religious tax breaks?
Praise to the Machine God.
I call them “Chattel” because they’re owned and enslaved (i.e. behavior controlled by) the broligarchs via ChatGPT etc.
chattel: a human being considered to be property; an enslaved person.
ah, so they’re lesser humans. that’s fresh and humane.
#triggered
yes. that made be mad. i felt bad reading that. it dragged up unpleasant memories which i would rather not be reminded of.
I know
so what now? have you scored some sort of victory over me because of trauma in my past? has it made you happy to know that i am sad?
I win the internet for tonight
i hope that helps you
Read the first three words of the definition: a human being. I didn’t call anyone less than human – but the billionaires who run these companies consider all of us non-billionaires to be less than human, just NPCs here to serve them and pay them subscription fees.
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Ah yes, I got their terminology slightly wrong. But people who are enslaved are not lesser humans either. Not sure why they took it that way.
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more because of who usuallu uses the terminoloy.
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Incredible slur
15 years ago would have been
People Are Becoming “Sloppers” Who Have to Ask Google Before They Do Anything
There is no news in this news.
“Every critique of tech I religiously like is FUD!” - the techbro’s guide to handling criticism
I feel Google is a different story to AI though. Google just found the information for you to read, AI actually tells you.
ok Boomer
Idiocracy wasn’t supposed to be a documentary.
Hey?! Why Come You Don’t Have A Tattoo?
Lemmy, how do I feel about this?
who do you feel about this?
Your chakra’s not properly aligned today, try again tomorrow.
You’ve entered a fugue state.
I for one, love that music. Just sayin’.
I was already in one before.
That’s a melancholic question, grte!
danekrae hurt itself in confusion.
You have the morbs.
Them orbs to ponder.
Hell yeah! It’s orbin’ time!
You feel
yesabout this
those frickin clankers should just unplug themselves
We’re cooked.
ChatGPT is the ultimate ‘cultural product of the postmodern era,’ and very few of us have been inoculated with a theory of mind that distinguishes language from thought," Foster concluded in his newsletter.
The best description of this distinction I’ve encountered was in a science fiction novel - Blindsight by Peter Watts.
I use Mistral Ai instead because I don’t touch and US products or services. The most common thing I ask is: check and tidy up these notes add formatting for readability, present as a markdown code block, add some nerd fonts.
Hell, it’s getting hard to avoid. DuckDuckGo now has an AI answer at the top of search results. When doing technical searches, it’s usually just regurgitating the top StackOverflow answer, but there is always the problem that it could be regurgitating a bad answer. Or badly regurgitating an answer. So, it’s usually best to ignore it and read the answer it’s trying to give and then research what the person actually said and if it’s right.
You can turn off ai results
Set this as an alternative search engine
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Correct, %25 is the escape for a percent sign
Thankfully, that option can be disabled. I still find DDG far more useful than Google these days. My work laptop is a chromebook, and despite that I’ve been using DDG because it gives me more actual sites - not just links to sites that want me to pay in order to have access to them.
at least ddg respects the “never show me this” toggle.
I work in a very technical field and I used to be worried that I wouldn’t be able to keep up into my 40s and 50s but seeing how genZ deals with technology makes me much less concerned. I feel like we’re heading into a situation where the big divide will be pre and post brain rot.
100%. My brother in-law is like 10 years younger than me. Holy fuck is he stupid. Man has stage 4 Joe Rogan /gpt induced brain rot
can confirm 3 younger (late teens/early twenties) BIL with dog shit for brains
I think that, since the wave of IT outsourcing in the 00s, anybody with a career in Tech who had reached the level of Senior Designer-Developer by then or was close to it was safe in their job forever, because that seriously bottlenecked the job opportunities and the Junior and Mid career levels in the West whilst in places that benefited from it, it just translated into tons of people going into Tech who had no knack for it whatsover and would otherwise never have enter the field (so whilst in some countries gifted techies were just giving up on a Tech career, in other countries the field got tons more of incompetent techies who would never good enough to become senior experts in the field), meaning ever fewer professionals reaching the Senior expertise level.
Silver lining in a very big, very dark cloud for those in the right place and time.
Now, AI plus almost all young people nowadays growing up as Tech tool users surrounded by locked-down systems rather than tool makers (if only out of need, because most Tech stuff used to need some configuring and babysitting) is just making that even worse.
I suspect Tech growth and improvement is going to pretty much grind to a halt in the next decade or two.
To be fair, even before LLMs tech knowledge among the young was on the decline. You don’t have to know tech anymore yo use it. Everything is super easy to use with an intuitive GUI and zero need to look behind it.
I’m just glad my dad showed me how the launch games in the dos prompt
I feel like we’re heading into a situation where the big divide will be pre and post brain rot.
Almost feels too simple, given how brainrotted boomers are.
It’s like there’s a window with elder Millenials and Gen X, people who straddled the line of before/after the internet as they were growing up, that are sane.
Everyone else is broken.
The nickname is new, the behaviour isn’t.
At the risk of coming off judgemental of family, my mother in law is exactly like this; especially when it comes to anything related to the computer.
My partner is an only child and every time mother dearest has any kind of issue, real or imagined, with her computer, she’s hitting the speed dial for my partner’s phone. At this point she’s kind of in a mindset of “I’ve tried nothing and I’m all out of ideas”. If she can’t get an immediate response she actually starts to think about the problem logically, and tries to fix it herself.
Luckily, she hasn’t been inundated with AI chat bots yet.
I’m certain that if she could manage to get to chat gpt, she would be asking it what to do about everything under the sun… Lucky for her, I work in IT support and manage what updates she gets, or more accurately, doesn’t get.
She’s a fairly mild example since she actually tries when she can’t get an instant response from someone on what to do. There’s plenty of people that do not.
I’m almost entirely convinced that some of the willful ignorance is simply people aggressively keeping to their job descriptions (at least when it comes to what I normally have to deal with)… They don’t try to fix their computer because that’s not their job. Even if they know how, they won’t. That’s not in their job description. It gives them an excuse to work less and get paid for it.
Regardless of the reason, people often know nothing about things and don’t care to be informed on the subject, they just want the easy answer as to what they need to do next. Unfortunately for them, life is rarely that “black and white”.
