• wuffah@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    1984 or Brave New World — Answer? Both, along with a whole bunch of other existential horrors beyond imagining.

  • altasshet@lemmy.ca
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    8 hours ago

    I’ve been trying to practice something similar, but with inconvenience instead of discomfort.

  • Mistakes@sopuli.xyz
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    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.

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      16 hours ago

      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.

  • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    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.

  • Beej Jorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org
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    18 hours ago

    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.

  • eicker@lemmy.worldOP
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    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.

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      21 hours ago

      Most of your comments try to mix witty remarks based on the contents of the associated article in a way that reeks of AI.

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        20 hours ago

        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.

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          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.

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            14 hours ago

            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

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          18 hours ago

          You forgot the other bit: the people who already wrote like that, and AI learned to mimic their style.

          • eicker@lemmy.worldOP
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            18 hours ago

            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.

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          20 hours ago

          It’s only a matter of time before AI bots learn to wriye intentional tyops and shifty autocorrect just to appear more human

    • undrwater@lemmy.world
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      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.