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The problem is that AI is a lot like taking out a loan you can't repay. It gives you money now, only to cause serious problems later.

One must distinguish people whose lives were spent thinking critically, and then who subsequently adopted LLMs, and those who will grow up with the technology and will never have to think critically to get a program to run. Or do whatever.

There isn't a line, just like 'dangerous speed' isn't a line. The addictive and deleterious effect of a technology is more like a continuous quantity and as that quantity increases, the probability of misuse and deleterious effects increase too.

The entire problem is that this website is so hyper-focused on curiosity. Which seems to be not a good thing when taken to this limit in some cases, because you get a bunch of people who become conditioned to hide in their inner world of mental stimulation, rather than actually caring about what they're reading.

It's basically a website to stimulate the good feelings that come from absorbing information, which creates a sort of pathological behaviour in most of the participants.

I mean, you just wouldn't find a gathering like this in real life. Debate and discussion here happens merely for the entertainment and distraction of those using it, and the information and news presented here becomes like a fictional version of real life, except that the fictional is actually real.

While the intentions of this website might be good, I think in the long run it just further promotes the behaviour of hiding away from the world, and as a result is a net negative to those who use it.

Yes it is because it's the next stage in the emergent phenomenon of tech becoming more addictive so that we can't help but develop it. AI puts technology first over the needs of humans and it's harder to avoid.

Ah I have fond memories of The Next Generation. And Patrick Stewart introduced me to earl grey tea. I should have a cup tomorrow morning!

True. We should fight for them though, and that's the entire point of an article like this.

We do protect them in some ways. People who don't want to use the internet should still have phone numbers to call, and they should still be able to go into a bank and store their money or cash their paycheques.

The Amish are even protected by law in some ways. They don't have to pay social security for one, which is more compatible with their lifestyle (they take care of their own).

> If you still avoided it, get familiar with AI tools. It is easy to use

Or, not. What about if people don't want to use AI? Personally, I do want to focus on reality but not because I fear AI. Rather, I detest it. People should have the option of not using it.

> to unlock your team's curiosity

God, what sort of a world do we live in where curiosity has to be "unlocked". No. Curiosity is the thing that happen when you naturally want to know something. If it has to be unlocked, it's not curiosity. And even if there were some meaning one could ascribe to unlocking curiosity, it wouldn't be with some sort of vibe-coded behemoth AI analytics system....

Glad I got out of the corporate world as soon as I could. It's all rather inhuman.

Some thoughts:

1. I don't think AI is inevitable. If there is a global economic crash, that might be sufficient to stop AI because it wouldn't be profitable or sane for anyone to build it.

2. If AI is inevitable, I think it would be better if it caused a disaster sooner rather than later so the vast majority of people will truly hate it and get rid of it.

3. I don't think AI has provided any benefits. Solving math problems is not a benefit - having a community of mathematicians solving problems is. And in general, it's making education worse because it's too addictive for students.

4. I don't see the logic of "protecting the greatest number of people" in the short-term. Often that leads to long-term consequences that are even worse for a the entire population.

5. I personally won't work on AI but neither do I fear it. I hate it.

Don't know what voting has to do with anything.....and I don't worry about billionaires either. I couldn't care less if they didn't have a penny or were thrown in jail...but I'm not sure what your point was?

The number one criticism against Wordpress seems to be the plugin architecture. But if you only use a small set of plugins, maybe Akismet, and Loginizer, you can do a lot of things already. Plenty of people don't need many plugins. So maybe this alternative CMS is good too, but I think for a basic blog/website Wordpress is still a good choice. Of course, the author has a point if you have to use hundreds of plugins....

Still using the M1 Macbook Air for 4K video editing on Davinci Resolve and Photo Editing with Darktable (open source). Just 8GB of Ram too and I've never really needed more. Obviously these new versions are great but even the original is not too shabby.