nathanaldensr

Haha, I wanted to post this but you beat me to it.

Was it ever not stupid?

I like to tell people that "AI" is the "last bubble." It was VR, the metaverse, crypto, NFTs, AR... AI is the Last Great Hype. There's really nothing beyond it. When this bubble pops it'll be remembered for decades to come because nothing will replace it.

90%+ of humanity is dumb as rocks and wouldn't know "AI" or "AGI" from baby's first line of JavaScript.

Just make sure to use Tribler!

From high-trust homogeneous populations to low-trust heterogeneous populations.

Wouldn't that constitute a public performance of copyrighted material? The police themselves could be DMCAed. Haha

Who is "we?" Software developers who are growing up "vibe coding?" We're even further from the underlying hardware on the abstraction layers; just how are "we" going to care more about efficiency?

Not all of us are gullible idiots. I've been in tech for more than 30 years and I avoid AI except for trivial search results. There are undoubtedly many more like us who see it for what it is. Guard your spirit!

Antitrust has been dead for decades. It spans administrations and parties.

Waste and grift.

Not everyone characterizes AI as "liberation from toil," and many are skeptical that any "equitable distribution of benefits" will occur in the first place. That's the point.

Last time I looked into this, you really couldn't in a reasonably simple way. It was possible between two users, but more than two just caused issues with syncing.

This does absolutely nothing to address the underlying social, economic, and ideological reasons why new relationship formation is struggling so much, especially with Gen Z. It's not a technological problem, in other words.

I won't go into my personal explanations here as I'll just be downvoted into oblivion (there are other forums for that discussion) but I will say this: without men and women having reasons to be in relationships--especially long-term reasons--then relationships won't happen. It's proving easier to get our needs met outside of relationships.

It's not about actual security; it's about the appearance of it. It allows CTOs and such to check a box to say "Why yes, our vendor is secure! Look at all their claims! Look at how many other companies use them!" That's it. Safety in numbers for clueless CTOs.

Just noticed this myself. Whoops!

What's wrong is a society full of people who are avoidantly attached and full of trauma.

Millennials on the whole are incredibly neurotic about all kinds of things. Why that is is a matter of debate.

That's not empathy, though. The word "empathy" has been co-opted to mean "understanding someone else's point of view," but that's not what empathy is. Empathy is feeling others' feelings. I'm actually empathetic in that I sometimes experience an emotional response (limbic) similar to an intense emotional response I witness others having, especially if they're a person close to me. This is very different than making a conscious attempt (prefrontal cortex) at intellectual understanding of someone's emotions.

Unfortunately, housing is not merely treated as a cost issue for most people. Where we live is a social and even spiritual experience. We're not bugs that mindlessly perform our economic duty and then return to our hole. We're human beings who like space, freedom, and the ability to control our surroundings.

Taking money from the devil on one hand, protesting evil with the other. Make it make sense. "Rules for me but not for thee."

Yes.

"There are already foxes in the hen house, but we'll ban new foxes from entering!"

> HN has a large enough MAGA contingent that believes by not talking about it the world will hold off a little longer from bringing down their idol.

No. You're projecting. You're one of those types that sees politics in everything--that wants politics in everything. Some of us, me included, flag political stories not because of our beliefs but because we'd rather HN not become Reddit, or the countless other spaces that have been perniciously and intentionally invaded by "always politics, all the time" people.

Exactly. Like most "growth hackers," they assume that our attention is their resource to consume, and we should all be grateful for the privilege of making them rich.

No thanks. I reject this as the abusive practice and mentality that it is.

You're asking for others to take abuse on your behalf because your needs are more important than theirs. You're abusive. Stop coping and admit the truth. You're part of the problem but wrapping it in victimhood.

I've noticed the same. Companies are disguising what are obviously marketing, advertising, or promotional content as "transactional." Experian is probably the most famous of these offenders. They send "transactional" emails every month that can't be opted out of when they notice changes in my credit file (everyone's credit file changes every month almost by definition!) It's scummy, intentional, and IMO breaking the law.

I wish this were hyperbolic. Sadly, the memes have become reality (was it always reality?)

The question isn't what must be done; look to the very founding of the United States for wisdom on that topic. The only question is, do people have the collective courage to do it?

This is simply not true by most objective metrics... unless you don't like plastic and fertilizer?