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Cake day: June 27th, 2023

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  • And in turn, people have employed this exact counterargument for each and every single one of the scams the owner class has attempted to employ in recent memory, from the metaverse, to crypto, to NFTs, and now to chatbots that tell you how very special and smart you are. “Industrial revolution was a very good thing! Therefore this totally unrelated and unproven proposal is equally very good! Yayyyy!”

    Go read Richard Dawkin’s new article where he convinced himself his chatbot was sentient because it told him he asked the most intelligent questions of anyone on earth. Or look up the direct studies on the cognitive harm being caused, hey, for the time being AI can probably even help collate them for you


  • It harms you in the form of directly causing cognitive decline.

    Just look at the way you have advocated for it within this very comment. You argue that it’s a valid “pressure release valve”, an avenue to seek solutions when you are otherwise frustrated.

    Those moments, the ones where you have seemingly exhausted all possibilities, are the ones where your mind starts working. You are training yourself to interrupt the process. You can tell yourself this story about how you attempted to make an effort first, but the truth is your patience for that will get smaller every day.

    And then what’s the plan? Why would I hire someone who is ultimately totally interchangeable with all the other prompters who can only forward what AI told them? Why would I give you a raise when I could just replace you with someone equally capable of reading off “AI solutions”?

    Where are these “better employers” who will “probably” save you going to come from, and why would they bother? Is that assessment based on anything in particular? Why go to bat like this over something you can only call “mostly okay” for particularly small tasks?




  • Why omit “using” from your summary at the end there? They wrote a whole article about how they love using AI and think anyone who doesn’t is comparatively unproductive. In fact they have over a dozen articles about adjacent AI topics. It’s not really a weak connection at all it’s literally just them saying they do the thing lol

    Regardless, the blog itself actually has an AI disclosure: “I use AI heavily on this blog”. Followed by another article about how it is used “correctly” in this case. If you’re just in the mood to argue or whatever I guess we can debate the specific definitions and nuances between literally just copying a whole article from AI output (which they emphatically say they do not do) vs passing your writing through AI to assist you throughout the process



  • I get what you’re saying but not every person needs to be working on the same cause. Even if we did that, America would be pretty far down the list compared to other places at the moment

    But thankfully we do have tons of projects going that are run by people who care a lot about that particular thing and feel engaged in it. Sometimes that’s forest conservation, sometimes that’s renewable energy, sometimes that’s human welfare, this time it’s shrimp welfare. And who knows, maybe this concept with the shrimp will give someone pause and actually motivate them to do some of their own unique good for the world