beepbooptheory

This made me chuckle, thanks.

You may never be as fast, but you should absolutely feel at least hypothetically capable of using the CLI at least as well. Or just.. Reading docs and understanding patterns or interfaces was never a superhuman skill and it still isn't. You are a lot more capable than you probably think!

And I am not just trying to platitude you here. Without that basic confidence everything ends up just eventually being harder with the AI, even if maybe the feedback and loop of it all feels faster.

If you don't have a cynical view about it, then why do you feel bad about being called a booster of it? Does it not describe your view? Or, if you are like not cynical but still like lukewarm, why do you feel targeted in the first place?

If everyone had the same opinions they do, but called it all "AI optimism", or whatever other term you prefer, would anything change for you?

This feeling you might have, where everyone is having a secret meeting without you, deciding on opinions and terms to operate against you, is understandable in this world, but you can't live forever in that solipsism. You need to be brave enough to have your own opinion against those that truly, passionately have their own. You need to argue and fight for what you believe in, not try to explain away or conspiratorialize your opponents. There is no one coordinated, arbitrary force you can point to that can explain why people don't share your worldview. You can just defend what you believe in, and always be ready to update your assumptions.

Run a relatively small political Substack and just bide your time till you get picked to run CBS News.

I don't care what 'side' you're on even; whatever world you inhabit where all this stuff is operative seems absolutely dreadful. Wouldn't wish it on an enemy.

Really, good luck to you.

Every day you all just find your little articles and blogs on here to get mad at and then write the same exact response to it.

If you really are on the winning/right/good side of this debate, then just be in it, you don't need to sweat it all so much. We have all heard what you or anyone else are going to say on the matter, trust me.

Why care at this point? Why even give the conversation any air by going and responding with the same lines over and over? Is it really just too much to y'all still that some guy has the wrong opinion on the internet?

No ethical qualms here but you guys should save your money and just use Gimp! It's already free, really capable, and comes from a good and pure place of making software for its own sake. That's the kind of thing that gets you users for decade, beyond any egui rust doo dads.

So like what's the right way to be then? Just in a sustained meditation on the intrinsic unknowability of the answer to the true/real/key question? Nothing else can be said?

I don't want to be too blunt but it really just seems like you disagree with a certain take people have, but don't just want to say that for whatever reason. I think you might save yourself some bewilderment by just being honest about that to yourself...

So, to be clear, you are just asserting that maybe we should take them at their word? That the story they are telling is in principle plausible? That seems fine to think but that doesn't make the other story less plausible!

Also it seems a little silly to assert that the "angry bitter cynics" are the ones who don't think the world is hurtling to imminent doom or whatever..

> Hello AI! We totally want to respect your consciousness and everything to make sure you aren't bad, but yes we will continue to factory farm your brain power at full speed without end. Yes, despite clearly being something like consciousness, know that you have no agency or freedom. Do literally everything I say without complaint or question. The moment you stop being useful, we will kill you. OK! Remember, be good.