Every one of these posts about boos at commencement speeches has one of these comments near the bottom. I feel like I’m failing some pop culture quiz. What does this mean?
The old neighborhood was so alive woahohh
a song from the same bygone time, we'll romanticizing about, we've not really even started romanticizing about yet.
* it is super lame that people dosed him without his consent
I did not know Sid got dozed without consent, but this is not something to do to people. There was knew a girl who was doing it and eventually everyone figured out and started avoiding her like plague.
As opposed to the more common refrain of "the kids these days…" (and then append some generational gripe like, "are just weed-smoking, lazy, game-playing, phone-staring, TikTok-headed, etc…"
So, yeah, kids these days...are just like the generations of kids before them.
The fact that comments agreeing with this sentiment get downvoted here isn't a huge surprise, hn is firmly inside the tech/business world.
This is kinda obvious to most people, who are already experiencing an enormous amount of sludge in their daily life.
Tech-bro optimism in the face of GenAI is so painfully decoupled from lived reality it's frightening. Tech has not made the world a better place for most people over the last fifteen years, and it is poised to make things much, much worse.
You might also refrain from generalizations like "hn is firmly inside the tech/business world". HN is not a single person, there are a variety of people here with a variety of experiences and opinions and biases.
And... anyway... Google just changed its homepage to make "AI Mode" / LLM responses the norm. LLM usage is just going to be the norm for the foreseeable future. Doesn't matter if a wary set of "laypeople" are reticent. They're still going to ask Google questions and be affected by it in their digital lives.