When my partner and I had our first we had a close family friend which was very much a “gadget” mom. She treated parenting like an equipment sport.

At the baby shower she got us or at least recommended, quite literally, every product mentioned in this article. She loved showing off the like 4 apps on her phone monitoring every single metric about her kid.

I had a great time throwing it all out when we got home

Yeah but that’s no fun. Why would I use a project that isn’t any fun?

This is honestly why I’m an AI hater. We don’t need more stuff faster, that’s the last thing we need. The more I think on it the more I realize that all the art, media, even technology that I’ve really cherished and thought deeply about in my life had some kind of social connection; friends, family members, shared experiences.

I am now surrounded on all sides by water and I have nothing to drink.

I expect it won’t be difficult to get public support for it as the economy gets worse and AI is responsible for more job loss.

At this point I think the goal needs to be getting the government to install reasonable regulations because I fully expect we’re going to start seeing them coming down the pipeline.

Absolute nightmare world where AI is the primary UX. My absolute least favorite part of AI is the natural language interface. Unintuitive as hell.

That’s the line I draw. Same with art or anything else. I’m okay with using AI as an oracle or a tool to check work but the finished product should be human brain -> human hands -> project

Came here for this meme.

Thank you comrade

OpenBSD is pretty great. I really hope open source projects settle into a human write + LLM static review workflow but I know that’s wishful thinking.

Till then OpenBSD/NetBSD

Do you? Recommend land. Soil doesn’t stop working after a solar flare.

Didn’t believe it until I looked it up.

Wholly fuck we really want the black wall from Cyberpunk don’t we?

you critique society yet you participate in society! I am very smart

Hold on let me find it

EDIT: for you habibi

I would be on board for this. Regulate use to very select applications, ban commercial use without specific permits.

I have kids, I stay awake at night a lot these days wondering what I’m supposes to tell them when they look up at me and tell me they want to be a doctor, engineer, or lawyer when they grow up. What the fuck do I get them to aspire to when we’re hurtiling towards a world where there’s nothing to aspire to anymore? How do I convince them to study hard and learn things when there is no economic incentive to do so? What kind of kids are we raising when they exist in a world of infinite dopamine and a personal familiar that grants your every magic wish?

I had this nightmare of a gaming company where the owner sicked a multi-agent swarm on scraping the internet to do market analysis on what trends would make a successful game. Had another model craft a prompt to turn it into a game and past that prompt to Opus5.5.

I swear to god I am close to just going off grid. We are so past the pale

My senator is Schumer, should I call him and ask him to back Van Hollen?

The purpose of art is not to make me feel something. That’s hedonism; functionally masturbation.

The purpose of art is to serve as a method of communication and bond forming. That’s the clinical way of putting it but to evoke a bit more “woo”…

The purpose of art is to allow two or more humans to communicate on a level simple dialogue cannot achieve. It’s to take the thoughts that live in your head, with or without the limitations of compression needed for transmission (medium), and put them in my head. It was never about feelings or personal satisfaction, those are happy bi-products; its about community and human connection.

AI adds a layer of abstraction in the form of a second, non-human, communicator. I cannot attribute art created by Claude to its user, the user has been obscured, and I can no longer hear their thoughts.

We’re talking about a technology that is able to self direct when solving abstract problems, able to develop novel solutions to frontier mathematics. Drum machines do not maintain an internal high dimensional latent information space and display indicators of g. Synthesizers cannot create a novel melody.

This is not “just a tool”. It is impossible for me to attribute ‘art’ created by AI to the human that prompted it. I also now live with the constant paranoia that what is being showed to me was made by an LLM much like who me you are responding to.

It’s not that it’s bad or soulless, quite the contrary, it’s often quite good. It just wasn’t made by a human.

Honest question. Why would you want “true AI”?

This is like saying “true mega bubonic-AIDS can be made if we do XYZ”.

Stop, stop making mega bubonic-AIDS

Super not fine. It needs to be regulated into the ground. Medical research? Fine. Literally anything else? Get in line for your inference application.