1984 or Brave New World — Answer? Both, along with a whole bunch of other existential horrors beyond imagining.
I’ve been trying to practice something similar, but with inconvenience instead of discomfort.
This headline is summarizing something that I’ve come to realize over the last year. Discomfort is ok. It helps us grow. In my case: comfort leads to complacency, and complacency leads to stagnation. It’s a good idea in my case to reject just a bit of modernity.
That also can lead to different conclusions. It’s like half a year of me using MacOS instead of Linux or FreeBSD with FVWM and everything set up how I want it. It’s inconvenient and not customizable, but at the same time I’ve had a bit of progress with hobby projects.
Discomfort can be so great for you! Or maybe it’s too much comfort leading to greater downsides - not sure.
A while ago, I was stuck in a situation where I had to use a backless chair for a week or so. I found myself switching positions and stretching and taking breaks more often, and how it actually led to less fatigue at the end of the day, both mental and physical. Then I tried expanding it to another experiment I had tried years back: floor-sitting, but not with my back towards a wall or a heavy piece of furtniture, with something in-between for comfort - I just set up my laptop where it was most convenient and relied on my back and legs to do the support, still taking breaks and stretching. In no time, I noticed a lot more flexibility in my legs and spine, and the morning back pain was just gone, like it was never there! Of course, initially there was discomfort, and there still is if I don’t listen my body, but overall, I feel so much healthier and lighter and more capable than my peers - especially those going to the gym and buying ergonomic PC/gaming/office chairs and such.
So I’m probably very biased towards that headline.
Out of curiosity, are you younger than 30?
Don’t wanna dox myself, but yea, but only technically and marginally. I had lead a less healthy lifestyle a few years ago, which, when thought back of, really feels like an older age due to lower body inflexibilities and back pain.
I hate to break it to the anti-AI crowd. But using AI is uncomfortable for ,ost people. Further the interface is very immature and rough around the edges. So you are kinda saying do use AI… And it keeps changing. Just when you think you know how to work with it, they make more changes. Get comfortable being uncomfortable.
The real dystopia isn’t AI becoming smarter than us. It’s AI doing the thinking and writing while humans are left solving CAPTCHAs to prove we’re still human. We’ve automated curiosity but somehow kept the cookie banners. Truly a golden age of efficiency.
Most of your comments try to mix witty remarks based on the contents of the associated article in a way that reeks of AI.
Of course it reeks of AI. We all write like AI now. Half the internet sounds like a chatbot trying to pass as human, and the other half is humans desperately trying to sound like chatbots. At this point, sounding natural is probably the biggest giveaway that you’re a bot.
You forgot the other bit: the people who already wrote like that, and AI learned to mimic their style.
Exactly. AI didn’t invent that style. It learned it from humans. The real tragedy is that those people can now be replaced by a machine, and nobody notices the difference.
Great deflection, chatgipity. You don’t sound natural, that’s the thing. And I’m not going to pinpoint what it is because that just helps your AI or whatever prompts you’re using to craft your comments.
To agree with you. It’s pretty easy to sound natural just fuck the sentence structure up a bit. Like surely you can tell this is written by a human because of how dogshit the English is thanks
It’s only a matter of time before AI bots learn to wriye intentional tyops and shifty autocorrect just to appear more human
A friend of mine has been doing that for decades. 😂
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Insurance companies aren’t able to fix the knowledge reduction, critical thinking skills, job losses, etc.
I want to climb Everest, but it’s so much work. I’ll add my name to the ranks of the greats by taking a helicopter.
Good luck with that. The air is on the thin side up there.
It probably is honestly questionable whether walking up or helicoptering up is safer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didier_Delsalle
Uh huh. And refrigeration has robbed everyone of essential food preservation knowledge.
Automation does that. Whether it’s a bad thing depends upon many factors.
Current frontier models aren’t guaranteed to last. Commoditization is coming and democritization with it.
I predict a lot of H100 GPUs are going to crop up super cheap on Ebay pretty soon.
I’m married - stop trying to seduce me.
I’m looking forward to it. I can’t wait to scoop up a few.
Then let’s go back to candle light and cease online articles as well.
When the power goes out that happens. Candles and / or flashlights come out, the Internet is down, and we experience some discomfort.
Often times, though, we can “lean into” the current situation and learn new things and even have some fun.
The point of the article is to pay attention to your habits of reliance, not to eliminate them. It’s a confidence booster to know that you can exist without an LLM, the Internet, or electricity.
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