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[–] 389aaa@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They weren't called vapes back then - I remember this too. They were usually just called electronic cigarettes or e-cigarettes, at least in the US.

I remember sneaking a puff of one as a teenager - they were shaped like and sometimes even coloured like cigarettes, I think they had a intended system of titr8ion down in nicotine dosage too.

[–] 389aaa@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago

You can't just deny reality because it doesn't suit your opinions.

There are, in fact, a lot of anti-AI people who are familiar with the technology and have used it and maybe even still use it while absolutely hating it and wanting the technology destroyed.

People do, in fact, have their own opinions. Not everyone worships productivity. Many people acknowledge the usefulness of this technology and still reject it for the cultural, artistic, and cognitive impacts.

[–] 389aaa@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They're an AI booster. They can't explain anything in their own words, that's why they're like this.

[–] 389aaa@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm not convinced you ARE a person. Maybe you used to be one but you sure seem to have replaced your own brain with token prediction.

[–] 389aaa@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago

This is a hilarious strawman by the way. You're right there's a number of people who've never tried it but to imply that ALL those who are anti-AI have never engaged with it hilarious.

I have spent hours and hours of my life engaging with these stupid machines and trying to get myself to like them because I know they're only going to get more everywhere over time and it's obviously bad for my mental health to fucking hate this stupid fucking technology so much, I know they are in fact useful for a ton of shit, hell, I've even begrudgingly used them to dig through erratz unorganized databases many times.

I still fucking hate them, and I still do not think the technology is in any way worth the negative effects on cognition, society, the arts, and human culture as a whole.

[–] 389aaa@hexbear.net -1 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Oh, yeah, sorry, I forgot about all the shitty techbro article spam that nobody fucking reads. Frankly I'm not convinced YOU read them all given how rarely you have any comment or analysis on them.

Maybe you just get your precious Chinese LLM to read them all for you.

[–] 389aaa@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Seriously, I will never understand why you're not banned. You're one of the most inflammatory, disrespectful, nonsensical posters on the site.

Are you even a fucking socialist? All I've ever seen you do is evangelize AI.

[–] 389aaa@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

People don't want this shit because they're fundamentally disgusted by it and see it as immoral and inhuman. (Correctly.)

You're going to have to wait for the generation of people who grew up with this to be culturally ascendent for your stupid scolding nonsense to work, and god willing by that time we'll all be long dead.

[–] 389aaa@hexbear.net 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If this website had any sense you'd get banned for behavior like this.

[–] 389aaa@hexbear.net 0 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Don't waste your effort - lemmygrad users have been universally ableist as hell in my experience.

They're generally the productivity cult kind of socialist, unfortunately.

[–] 389aaa@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago

I'd put in the effort to fully respond to this, but if you're going to misogyny jacket me there's no particular point.

I quite directly acknowledged the fact that there is significant cognitive skill in weaving, literally my only contention was that it was not so nearly as fundamental of a cognitive skill as the things LLMs degrade. And even beyond that I actually do think that people should be learning mind-body cognitive skills like that, regardless of usefulness in modern society (and there are many that are very useful) I just didn't feel a need to make that clear because that's not what we're discussing.

But you're probably not even going to read that, given you've already resorted to misogyny jacketing the removed you're talking to because you don't have a real argument, so like, go fuck yourself.

[–] 389aaa@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

That's not much of an argument. Are you actually a socialist or are just an unironic campist?

Think materially: the average American is so stupid because of a combination of deliberate effort to make the population stupider, and because of conditions that have fostered a devaluation of intellectual skills.

LLMs have only made both problems worse. Why do you think things will go any differently in China? And don't just cite that they're socialist so it'd be fine, give me actual material differences that mean LLMs won't have the same negative cognitive effects they've had literally everywhere else.

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