No need to be so dismissively pathological. If you disagree, that's one thing, but this reads as 'look at this sad, crazy fool' when this is a pretty understandable reaction to feeling alienated by the way in which LLMs are being forcefully pushed in both personal and professional domains and the oft ensuing breakdown in human to human communication. 'Who does this technology serve?' is a valid question and 'not us' is a valid answer.
Sure, the poster's feelings may stem from a 'wider set of technology/tooling', but that doesn't necessarily take from the point. People are sensing that LLM technology is being used as an accelerant for further alienation, whether attributed perfectly to the specific technology or not.
I accept that the poster may be feeling these things, and I'm not interested in or making a value judgement around them. All feelings are valid.
Instead, I'm pointing out that it's an extreme overreaction and histrionic viewpoint that is shared by a lot growing number of people, who have been living in this same world for the last 10 years. Now we've got generative AI all the sudden it's "I hate I hate I hate I hate I hate I hate, I'm against all of it"
In every fucking thread.
It seems like the only thing we can talk about is how cool this technology is and how much a growing number of vocal people really don't like it.
"Not liking ai" is becoming a demographic of people that are just as annoying as the people that want to shove llms down your throat.
Imagine trying to have a rational conversation where someone up top has declared their absolutist position with 7 declarations of hate
How uninteresting: welcome to hackernews. You can't talk about the class struggle, and you lose the ability to vouch for things for trying to keep reporting of fascist downslide in the west unflagged.
But you can post screeds against a technology on a technology forum and people just fucking looovvee it.
What's the problem of not liking shit when it is shoved down your throat? It is not an extreme overreaction, it is a reaction, so maybe this technology is just really bad?
No need to be so dismissively pathological. If you disagree, that's one thing, but this reads as 'look at this sad, crazy fool' when this is a pretty understandable reaction to feeling alienated by the way in which LLMs are being forcefully pushed in both personal and professional domains and the oft ensuing breakdown in human to human communication. 'Who does this technology serve?' is a valid question and 'not us' is a valid answer.
Sure, the poster's feelings may stem from a 'wider set of technology/tooling', but that doesn't necessarily take from the point. People are sensing that LLM technology is being used as an accelerant for further alienation, whether attributed perfectly to the specific technology or not.
I accept that the poster may be feeling these things, and I'm not interested in or making a value judgement around them. All feelings are valid.
Instead, I'm pointing out that it's an extreme overreaction and histrionic viewpoint that is shared by a lot growing number of people, who have been living in this same world for the last 10 years. Now we've got generative AI all the sudden it's "I hate I hate I hate I hate I hate I hate, I'm against all of it"
In every fucking thread.
It seems like the only thing we can talk about is how cool this technology is and how much a growing number of vocal people really don't like it.
"Not liking ai" is becoming a demographic of people that are just as annoying as the people that want to shove llms down your throat.
Imagine trying to have a rational conversation where someone up top has declared their absolutist position with 7 declarations of hate
How uninteresting: welcome to hackernews. You can't talk about the class struggle, and you lose the ability to vouch for things for trying to keep reporting of fascist downslide in the west unflagged.
But you can post screeds against a technology on a technology forum and people just fucking looovvee it.
What's the problem of not liking shit when it is shoved down your throat? It is not an extreme overreaction, it is a reaction, so maybe this technology is just really bad?
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