Track_ShovelLay them on me
CosmicomicalThis happened to me. I was really really into AI when nobody even knew what it meant, and now everybody talks of llms like they even know what the f they are.
Nah, nobody talks about LLMs. If I approached an average, everyday person about this topic, 99% of them wouldn’t know shit about it, while the tech-nerds all would.
It’s not mainstream at alllll yet.
What I mean is that “back in my day” there were maybe 10 people in the world seriously investigating strong AI
ricdehThat’s unlikely. What’s more likely is that you were not yet exposed to AI research and did not read through the academic reviews and articles of the time. AI is a serious topic in science and engineering since more than half a century.
I was reading papers daily, and there was progress but even in the field of symbolic ai the focus was on weak ai, a range of approaches that try to solve single problems. They were trying.to find marketable techniques, not looking for the sparkle of intelligence. Then big data came and people started specialising in techniques that were also useful for ml, and boom.
I know some people doing old-school logic-based AI research. They’re happy because there’s more AI funding in general, and they can present themselves as “what neural networks are missing” or “the next big thing”. Or they come up with projects involving hybrid systems.
Symbolic AI? Pretty sure a combo of that and ML would be needed. Pure ML is too unreliable and have limited coherence, and nobody knows how to program useful symbolic AI from scratch. But if you combine them they can cover each other’s weak spots.
I remember when Google started running classifiers backwards for the first time to produce the very first generation of generative ML. Very small crowd following it closely.
You look like someone who eats hot dogs the long way
SotuandusoWait, but, uh… what?
wunamiI’m pretty sure it’s about inserting hot dog shaped object in to the end of the digestive tract opposite the mouth.
From the side *
I’m not seeing the downside here.
Fr 10 years I was cool, but I kept doing the same things and now I’m just basic lol. Even the undercut became a popular hairstyle.
You sound like you’ve eaten the Roundmeal regularly since childhood.
That’s not an insult it’s a curse
Insult:
Your elevator doesn’t quite go all the way up.
You have all the creativity and emotional intelligence of a manager
One that I like that is also a curse rather than an insult is “I hope the rest of your day is as pleasant as you are”
pseudoThis is both
May your children grow up to be like the politicians you voted for.
No! Don’t inflict them on the rest of us!
You fight like a dairy farmer.
How appropriate, you fight like a cow.
(because someone had to)
And you fight like a hen.
I don’t get what that’s supposed to mean… Wouldn’t dairy farmers tend to be more jacked than average?
Your elevator doesn’t quite go all the way up.
NEITHER DOES YOUR DICK! YOOOOOOOOOOO!
😜
I was just hoping you’d do better this time…
the_grass_trainerRefer to someone you’ve never met by their name if you can. This usually works best in a school or work setting. And when they ask how you know their name just simply reply:
“Everyone knows who you are.” And walk away.
that’s ypur hobbie? lmao
the post is asking about insults. it’s not really an insult either but it’ll certainly make people feel worse…
Yeah, you have to make a disgusted facial expression as you say it.
Like, “Ugh, this motherfucker. He’s even worse in person.”
“So -you’re- Ashley? Huh…”
Honestly, homebrewing becoming a mainstream hobby would be pretty great, I’m always interested in trying a beer someone else brewed and it would probably make sourcing ingredients a lot easier if there was enough of a demand to necessitate a local shop in my area.
maybe start a local group with the goal of opening the local shop yourself?
eezeebeeWow, you have such a beautiful mind
InfynisI would love for my hobbies to be more mainstream. More merch, more people to share the experience with, and presumably more content
This works up to a certain size, then you start having to contend with more shameless money grabs, scalpers catching wind of things and making it impossible for actual fans/users of the product to get stuff for a reasonable price and more scammers.
Its also implying that the hobby will eventually burn our or become cringe in the eyes of the public. As most fads do.
And the opposite end of that is the corporatization of your previously small cozy wholesome authentic cottage industry sized hobby. It happened to videogames in the late 2010s.
Cycling? Great, increased funding for infrastructure and increased general awareness. Amateur radio? Lower prices for rigs, innovation, and more contacts to be made.
If your interest in a hobby is based on its exclusivity, it may be that you’re more interested in exclusively than in the hobby itself…
PyroI think they were more likely referring to how when the public eye is on something many companies will start churning out low-effort products to capitalise on the interest. The market would be flooded with cheap and inferior products in that niche, potentially threatening the smaller business that actually cared about making quality products for those hobbyists. I know this won’t apply to every hobby, but there are definitely a number of them that will.
BaŝtoWell, some people don’t do well with the higher speed and more social interaction it can lead to. It doesn’t have to result in giving up that hobby, but leaving communities related to it.
It’s not that some hobbies are based on exclusivity or even some other hipster rationalization, but there definitely is a period where a shit load of new people come in, read half a wiki page, then proceed to argue and talk down to people who have been at it for years. It ruins communities if the audience widens too much at once. I’ve been online long enough to have seen it happen multiple times.
It also sometimes a cringe ass youtuber sudden gets into a thing and introduces an extra fifteen thousand 12-15 year old who are just now realizing they have self agency and enough anonymity to spam bullshit without consequences. Or 4chan decides to troll the national news and makes your community a hate symbol.
DumbAceDragonIf that happened it’d be the year of the linux desktop.
LoudWaterHombreIt is the year of the Linux desktop
It’s the two certainties of life:
Certain taxes sounds like a skill issue
…and so are the next thirteen.
Is this a joke about the 2038 problem?
I’m not smart enough to come up with that, but thank you for giving me the credit!
I think they mean “mainstream”.
All the sharp wit of a perfect sphere.
dantheclammanThe thing is that the mainstream aspect will burn out, like most fads do, but the people who really love it will keep loving it, and some (usually small) amount of the new influx will also stick around permanently and enrich the community. It’s just about surviving through the fad part that is hard.
… What’s the insult?
You may be right. It’s a curse, but not an insult.
I will be happy if that happens; the only way to make any hobby go mainstream is to make it cheaper, which benefits all those who indulge in it.
The rapid growth will destroy your hobby by warping the culture beyond recognition and forcing you to act the their norms. I’ve seen it happen more than once.
MTG/Yugioh would like a word. In fact, of all physical collection card games, I think Pokémon is the only affordable one.
For me it depends entirely on 1) which hobby and 2) how the mainstream audience shapes it; if investors believe they can make more money by promoting certain aspects of the hobby, they can change it’s entire landscape. And that’s not even getting into what can happen when IP law gets involved.
It’s a shitty tradeoff to have to make, because sometimes I just want to everyone to enjoy what I enjoy. I’ve also seen hobbies die from too much exposure.
Your mom never loved you
banazirPeople who do not artificially limit their vocabularies are, in fact, more capable of self-expression. Our brains distinguish profanity from other words, meaning that they serve a special purpose in human communication and discourse. Cursing may even increase our ability to withstand pain where other words do nothing. Do not willingly and unnecessarily ignore perfectly functional words as is the wont of a common analphabet.