Comment by Iolaum
6 months ago
I was being curious and asked ChatGPT. OnePlus came as a likely candidate there as well. Still 2027 is a long time, hopefully my phone keeps working till then xD.
6 months ago
I was being curious and asked ChatGPT. OnePlus came as a likely candidate there as well. Still 2027 is a long time, hopefully my phone keeps working till then xD.
I really don't mean any offense here, but...why did you ask ChatGPT? What value did that give you instead of just, you know, thinking about it?
It is only useful if you are too “lazy” to do something. It is never useful if you are already capable of doing the thing
You need to broaden your horizons, mate. While an LLM does something for me, I am free to do something else.
I didn't want to go search for posts and speculation regarding what company maybe available so I asked it the question, and let it search the internet for me, compile the results and give me a speculative answer.
Also speculating on this issue is quite low priority for me that I didn't want to spend actual brain cycles.
Lastly I do try to find new ways to try and test ChatGPT to see how and when it works.
I wanna preface this by saying I'm really not trying to come at you here. This is just a really great microcosm of AI usage and the differences in use-cases, so though it might seem like I'm overthinking this, I'm intrigued and want to challenge you a bit if you're open to it.
I arrived at the OnePlus thing not by reading any speculation threads or anything. I was just thinking about it, just 'cuz. Thinking for the love of the game, for enjoyment. I wasn't searching for an answer -- obviously there _isn't_ one, it's all just speculation. So, already, the idea of searching the internet for other people's speculation seems pointless and antithetical the point, which is to think about it for myself.
I _certainly_ didn't think about it from the perspective of "spending actual brain cycles." As far as I know, "brain cycles" is a pretty reductive way of looking at the brain, and is fundamentally wrong in the same way that Trump was when he said that "exercise uses up the body's finite energy:" it's overly protective in a way that results in the exact opposite of what you think you're achieving. To put it more simply: "use it or lose it." I'm not worried about "spending brain cycles" (to the extent that "brain cycles" is an accurate model at all), because thinkin' 'bout stuff is precisely how I get _more_ "brain cycles," not _less_.
Which is all to say: do you seriously engage with all your potential thought avenues from this perspective? Weighing which ones are "low priority," etc? For work/programming/etc, I can understand that to a degree, but for something that can only be classified as "recreational thinking," I just do not get this _at all_.
You said in another comment in this thread that while ChatGPT does something, it frees you up to do something else. What did it free you up for?
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