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Seems genuine, but it's so weird to expose your personal family matters like this. I always wonder how I'd feel if my parents were bragging about how good they were to me on social media as they would parent me. It feels like it cheapens things because now it's not just about the family, it's also because you want clicks on your profile.

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As a fairly private person, this seems insane to me. Though this does seem very par for the course on LinkedIn.

I'm grateful I didn't grow up in the social media era. I don't think my particular parents would've posted our family's dirty laundry, but it just feels wrong. If you want to discuss these matters to others, why not do it in person (or in direct messages) rather than publicly for the whole world to see?

ML is an interesting technology. AI is a cult. Some people are in really deep.

Before the current phase there was certainly a radical transparency cult. See “The Circle” which wasn’t as obviously satirical as it probably should have been. But also lifestreaming etc.

I don't know if that was as asinine, all-pervasive and exhausting as the AI one. Altman bought millions of dollars of video game cards to make a website that can invent sentences by parsing hundreds of years of human work to guesstimate what passes for expected, and now each time I go to a meeting like "Algo trading, onboarding client X" in my company just yday, a frigging asshole always asks: "And AI, have you thought of AI to trade algorithmically". And the head of algo, a PhD in mathematics, C++ developer, actual money maker, sigh one more time "yes, we're studying what it can do ofc, since it's the future of everything".

The asshole asking that question is always the same: optimal level of incompetence, insecure about his position, aggressive with anyone "resisting change" when we try to save him from himself, and gone within 2 years. Sigh, the time we lose, and as I grow older and navigate those hypes, I feel half of humanity is some sort of social scamming parasite. I just am too shy to try and be one myself.

I enjoyed your comment

And Altman is a disgusting guru, it's so painfully obvious but somehow he gets the same amount of pushback as Enron "Electric Jesus" Musk, but for half the accomplishment: at least Enron built cars, lots of cars. Shitty cars, but cars.

Mr Altman (whom everyone calls Sam like he's their friendly post-human overload) is just a cringe VC scammer, not very sure why he's there in the first place, sending "Her" to create some hype 2 days before being called out like a pervert by an actress :D

It's hard to see a train going full speed towards a wall and everyone congratulating the pilot for his ability to go that fast, sigh.

To be fair to LinkedIn, everyone knows it's not expected to be real stories... it's just fun and silly to post random corporate drone bullshit and see people jokingly reply "you inspired me today to thank my boss" or some such.

Anyone who think anything on LinkedIn is not a comedy is missing half of what makes humanity so awesome I think :D They'd be the same who forbid alcohol or dancing and take everything at face value :D

This is the phase we are in now: they are rolling out the half-baked tech, its only real use might be private data collection for advertising, so its time to start getting people real comfortable with just sending every shred of audio and video you have to them

I would not even share personal matters like those with an AI.

I would not be happy about it.

some people like to overshare

> smoking crack in a faculty office at Harvard’s Kennedy School — or in an airplane at 30,000 feet. Or stealing a car. Or having sex on a beach in Israel with a mistress and attracting the attention of the Israel Defense Forces. Or later being arrested and charged with assaulting her. Or cuckolding a best friend.

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