Basically a deer with a human face. Despite probably being some sort of magical nature spirit, his interests are primarily in technology and politics and science fiction.
Spent many years on Reddit before joining the Threadiverse as well.
But this is exactly the effect I’m pointing out. You say:
More engagement here is less engagement elsewhere, where profits and data mining and surveillance are priorities.
And you’re describing “here” in terms that are appealing to anti-AI sentiment and “elsewhere” as being the opposite. Whether the effect is “secondary” or not, it’s still an effect.
You can drive engagement without money changing hands.
This place that we’re in right now is not a bubble of AI lovers, it’s a bubble of AI haters.
Of course Lemmy is designed to feed engagement. If it wasn’t then it would lose engagement to other forms of social media. For example, now that I’ve responded to your comment you’re going to see a notification that will draw you back here.
Social media is typically designed to create and strengthen social bubbles, bringing together like-minded people and showing them what they want to see. It is also designed to feed “engagement”. Rage is a great way to do that.
Just look at the prevalence of upvoting and downvoting tools in various social media sites. A great way to ensure that opinions that are popular within a particular community become even more prominent, while driving out anything that isn’t popular within that community. Little wonder that views inside those bubbles become a bit skewed compared to the outside world as a whole.
The upvote/downvote thing mostly indicates whether a comment or post agrees with the current popular opinion of the social bubble it’s found inside. I’ve said the same thing in different places and see quite different ratios. It’s not very useful for analyzing the content itself, it just tells you what the room thinks of it.
At least it doesn’t contain any fire.
You have an idiosyncratic definition of “extreme” then. And “cluster” for that matter.
You guess wrong. C++/C# applications, with a fair bit of Python for various supplementary tasks.
The implementation. I like coming up with the ideas, grinding out the code to make those ideas actually happen is tedious.
I don’t know what you would call extreme, then. There’s literally only one country on the chart that’s less excited about AI, Belgium.
Actually, the US is an extreme example in the negative direction when it comes to global attitudes toward AI. Most countries are much more excited about AI than the US is.
reading tech news left me so confused. all these people around me were letting the language models spit out crap code. they gave up on what i thought was the most interesting part of the job
I think I see the source of your confusion: you’re assuming that everybody has the same attitude towards things that you do.
I find that LLMs remove all the most boring parts of the job.
Depends where you look, “the Internet” isn’t one unified place. Social media forms bubbles easily, and social media like Reddit or the Fediverse is practically designed that way - minority voices get downvoted, blocked, banned, and so forth. So unless a forum is taking significant effort specifically to ensure diversity of opinion you’re going to end up with things drifting to some sort of extreme.
Well, kinda. But the internet is global and you can hook a data center up to it anywhere. There’s plans to build them literally in space. And I run local models on my own machine at home, that’s not going away either. So the impact of regulation will be limited and local. AI as a whole isn’t going away.
You’re asking a medical question of a random Internet forum, IMO that’s not a good start. Particularly since you don’t live in the US so it’s likely that simply asking a doctor a question isn’t going to financially destroy you and your family.
If any sort of worrisome medical condition just “randomly” shows up for no apparent reason, that’s reason to go check with a professional.
Literally half the threads on one of the technology communities I am on are complaints about how much AI sucks. Probably a similar ratio on the other technology communities, I didn’t count for those.
Most people complaining about capitalism don’t even know what the word means. They’re often really complaining about market economics or such.
Line went up, didn’t it?
I pick a simple goal: have a good day. Then I generalize that: try to have as many good days as possible relative to bad days. You can generalize it further and try to ensure other people have good days too, if you’re the empathetic sort.
It’s a process. As long as there are new people showing up, or more rarely people who change their minds, there will always be some disequilibrium.
I was literally told in another thread on this same topic of “AI hate” that I should “leave this community, and not to return” because my views weren’t in alignment with the community’s. I don’t tend to pay attention to that sort of social pressure but other people do and the result is an ongoing filtering of participation.