Glenn Seto3d ago
Æ.

I have taken so much shit for my positions on "AI" these past few years, so much ridicule and hostility.

I have not forgotten and will not forgive. I will be the most petty and vindictive bitch about this when it all comes crashing down and the skill rot really hits.

I will have my schadenfreude.

Mar 24 at 10:29pmWeb
Show threadÆ.3d ago

Oh, you never bothered to learn how to efficiently read a research paper during your undergrad degree because your chatbot daddy always gave you an easy (though incorrect) summary, but you loved to make fun of me for "wasting time" actually reading the assigned literature?

Sucks to be you I guess.

Show threadSasha 3d ago
@aesthr I sometimes say that the ability - or technique - to read and ingest scientific papers is the most important thing I learned in my university life.
Show threadPersephone3d ago
@aesthr "Oh no, you can't afford to use it any more since they raised the prices to Californian software engineer wage equivalents? oh no, what ever will we do?"
Show threadMad Alex3d ago
@aesthr Can we have the crash now? I'm tired of waiting for it to happen.
Show threaddraco2d ago
@aesthr yeah, really … this shit makes me want to hold onto cumbersome, hard and time-consuming skills. Like actually analyzing grammar with my own eyes and mind. Like writing code with nothing but a text editor and reference files. Like reading centuries-old treatises to understand how a modern thing came to be. Like examining the structure and logic of an argument. Like making physical things with low-tech tools.
Show threadMo Ⓐ☭🇵🇸3d ago

@aesthr I realized that, besides the environmental impact, mass theft, data concerns, propaganda, and disastrous economic effects, the main reason that I hate AI is that, fundamentally, people are trying to usher in a world where no one has to be good at anything ever again.

It has really empowered the worst type of guy: the idea guy, who refuses to learn a skill but believes their superior ideas would change the world, if only they were born with the "talent" to write/code/draw/sing

Show threadGlenn Seto3d ago
@MoBlack @aesthr The exact opposite of Star Trek, incidentally, plus they still won't give us that universal basic income.
Show threadÖlbaum1d ago

@aesthr You and me both.

Schadenfreude is written in bold, boxed letters on the whiteboard behind my desk at work. Maybe I should redo it in permanent marker. Or change it to SchAIdenfreude.