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I don’t think people hate AI per se - they hate big tech, and what big tech is doing with it. That’s a legitimate gripe, but it’s not the same thing as the technology being bad.
AI used well can be genuinely useful. I’ve dropped a couple of examples in other threads I won’t rehash here, but the short version is: there are real world uses for this tech (world modelling, medicine, robotics).
Remember, the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to the team behind AlphaFold. That’s the AI that cracked protein folding, a problem biology had been stuck on for 50 years. It’s already being used by over two million researchers to accelerate drug discovery for cancer, Alzheimer’s, and antibiotic resistance.
Hell, my dumb ass built a clinical notes pipeline that takes the tedium of charting from 15-20 mins down to about 3, with a policy gate that rejects LLM output before it ever reaches me if it fails criteria I defined. None that looks anything like the slop-firehose corporate rollout most people are reacting to.
Worth noting too: taking a black-and-white position on anything is just less cognitively expensive than arriving at a nuanced one. That’s not a character flaw, that’s called “being human”. But that doesn’t mean the nuanced position is wrong.
PS: The electricity/water data centre stuff is maybe more complicated than the headline takes suggest. This might be worth actually reading before treating it as settled.
https://blog.andymasley.com/p/a-cheat-sheet-for-conversations-about
YMMV and ICBW
17·19 days agoI don’t know. You (as an American) are in a better place to judge that than I.
What I do know is this: people are people. And for every rotten son of a bitch, there’s someone else, quietly, moving heaven and earth to do good - both in big ways and small. If we’re going to tilt at windmills, we may as well tilt at windmills together.
^ this
Reddit has converged on that as the recipe for success. There’s even a book on it
https://jacobdesforges.com/you-should-quit-reddit-published/
Karma, like buttons, up-arrows etc are all the same slot machine. I stand by my “yeet into garbage pile of history” comment, and so do (some) of the people responsible for it.
Oh, I had my run in with anti-ai folks already. Probably we’re talking about the same “lobster”, non?
Wrt insane troll logic: I have on old friend who made a good distinction. “The difference between a glutton for punishment and a gourmand for punishment is that the latter can eat garbage and transmute it into energy.”
I dunno if he was right, but it does remind me to go outside, touch grass and wrestle with my kids from time to time.
I mean…that’s just Tuesday on the internet in 2026. Sadly.
“Wrong noises” is a good framing. But it can be good too, in enforcing careful posting hygiene (ala “belt and suspenders” - cross your t’s and dot you i’s).
It’s sad that we have to assume defensive posture as s.o.p…but yeah, here we are.
To say it in the language of my people: shit’s fucked.
PS: I hope you got squared away ok, cause that cyberstalking thing sounds all manner of bullshit.
Theory:
People on Lemmy self select to be here, usually as a direct backlash to prevailing Reddit culture, management or behaviour.
Evidence: https://lemmy.world/post/41398418/21528414
Reddit is mainstream, discoverable, friction free for the masses.
OTOH, there is small (albeit deliberate) friction in engagement here, that hearkens back to USENET days. It’s analog, messy and human. There are some bots here (to be sure) so I don’t know how long the Golden Age of Lemmy will exist, but clearly this space was designed by someone who knows the old magics. It shows.
Therefore, if you posit an inverse correlation between “is an utter cunt” and “wants to interact on niche social media forum called Lemmy”, I think you’d have a safe bet.
It’s not a hard gate by any means, but it gambles (correctly IMESHO) on friction keeping the biggest trolls away. The ROI for being a cunt is demonstrably higher on Reddit, Tiktok etc. Bigger bucket.
Result: Lemmy is a nicer place to visit. For now.
Also, yes: I am Australian. Does it show? Cunt cunt cunty cunt cuntington III.
3·1 month agoI remember trillian. You might like this -
Telnet. An elegant tool for a more civilized time.
I see you, graybeard. And I pay respect.
No, not that I know of. We use to have local / oz only IRC channels, because overseas calls were expensive. So, you would dial into your ISP and then have access to city/state wide IRCs like AusNet. Later that became national. That was circa 94-99.
It was BBS before that.
I remember buying a small black and white TV from a second hand store to watch the 2000 Olympics and chatting to people over mIRC simultaneously.
The TV was sitting right next to a Apple Newton in the store. When I went back to get it, it had already been sold. Ended up buying a palm pilot 1000 instead.
ICQ? Listen here, young man.
I grew up in outback Australia, in the before times. My first time online was a 1200-baud modem on a BBC Electron.
We did school over HF radio with School of the Air, had no phone lines, and barely reliable electricity.
Do not speak to me of the deep magics. I was there when they were written.
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16/F/Cali
… that actually happens. Cashiers at Konbini do bow. Not every cashiers, not every Konbini, but more than you’d expect. Plus, they verbally welcome you to the store and say good bye when you exit. It’s reflexive over there.