Nina KalininaWe have reached a new era of civil engineering; now we can build bridges by simply dumping truckloads of shit into the river until the shit mountains are tall enough that some people and maybe cars can cross the river. Truly, it is a revolutionary technology that democraticizes access to bridges; now everyone can dump a truckload of shit over small rivers here and there and cross the rivers instead of asking an engineer to build the bridge for them. This approach completely removes all the bottlenecks in engineering, too: no need to navigate difficult legal or ethical frameworks. The biggest players on the market are staring to replace their bridges with shit mountains, you'd better be catching up and learning how to use this new groundbreaking technology. Some of you have ethical concerns, but this is beyond of the scope of my post. I also recognise that some might notice fish in the rivers dying, or simply slip on the shit; just you wait, I bet it'll be fixed in ~6 months
Cosmo@nina_kali_nina Oh wow – this analogy is pretty strong. Will test this against unsuspecting AI prophets next possibility.
@ChrSt I feel like I'm making way too many strawmans here. But as you can tell, I'm very bitter about the loss of engineering practices across the industry, or, rather, industries
@nina_kali_nina As am I. But before right now, I could not put it into words. Drawing an analogy to other engineering fields somehow did not yet occur to me.
Silly me – I always thought that the argument about destroying the planet might suffice …
Silly me – I always thought that the argument about destroying the planet might suffice …
@ChrSt I stopped arguing with LLM users, mostly. I feel like the divide is mostly ideological by now.
I also think that if we magically had a technology to make bridges out of shit that were safe, durable, and ethical, that'd be pretty awesome. But this ain't it; I think we're still shown shit mountains that are barely holding up together and told "that's the future of bridge building, look, it's cheap and solves today's business needs"
@nina_kali_nina "It will be fine" … meanwhile
