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Apparently you're right. I thought enshittification was limited to digital goods but I see the scope has grown since I last checked, without much of a fight on the side of consumers. Hopefully this will pave the way for companies that care to eventually make a comeback.

I've heard that consumers have a lot more power in the US compared to where I live. They will not tolerate things like bad product or service quality or prices that don't make sense, and that's how they teach sellers the rules. Why doesn't this translate to "job consumerism"? Regardless of what the law says, an employer will learn that if you treat your employees like shit, you will have no employees.

Not to take credit from anyone else who helped save the passengers including his own life, but I think he's the real hero since everything depended on his one act of unlocking the door.

I guess the answer to the second question is "if there's a business case", and the answer to the first is the same, so probably no. Life has made me a tad cynical... :)

It all boils down to whether the product (code , documentation, whatever) is polished, easy to understand and works as advertised. Beyond that, I don't give a rats ass about whether the intelligence that created it was human or artificial

I agree with you. However that doesn't explain why people get so upset about a definition being changed - seems just as silly.

I don't necessarily agree with the parent comment, but I think the angle might be one of utilitarianism, i.e: when caught, both should be put on trial and punished if found guilty, but the current focus of society to put more energy into catching one type over another is misguided as far as what will be best for society in general. Again, not saying I agree with that philosophy, but the logic is valid.

Agreed. Unfortunately some religious inclinations can be just as tedious as pure mechanistic rational inclinations, even if they are consistent. Fortunately, these are not the only two options available. The future that the article points to is not necessarily only bad news - it might be the uncomfortable truth required to transcend our limiting beliefs.

They don't seem that way to me. I should also note that AI generated content can at times be better than some human generated content

Reader here. Thanks for creating this. Totally resonates with my own thoughts, so if I'm wrong at least I have company :-)

I do have a suggestion for those who object to this line of reasoning: Follow the 5 why's to try and get to the source of your own reasoning and see whether it still makes more sense - in the sense of whether you end up adding to the common good

>Like a frog enjoying a nice warm bath...

Exactly :-)

Call me naive but I think dark patterns are a short term strategy for winning and I'm optimistic that in the long run they will be replaced with those that are more respectful and oriented to the greater good (granted, the long run might take more time than one hopes for).

Given that the pendulum can sometime swing back fast enough to be able leverage it, it might be a good time to focus on models that are both open weights and economically viable to run to build the next great thing.

Agreed. I bought it at the airport for a transatlantic flight the year it came out and started reading before lift off. Completed it before landing. Best flight ever.

Isn't society made up of everyday people? While I agree that the public being informed is a mutual responsibility, placing that responsibility on the government (which in many cases has plenty of incentive to keeping people ignorant) will not work either.

If you are implying that this is the case because this is also how leaders are selected in a democracy, then of course the sarcasm is noted - but here's my real unpopular opinion: Democracy only has value when the majority of voters are not morons. Unfortunately, I can't come up with a better solution - maybe create a model for which there is a wide agreement on and let it rule?

I have no doubt it plays on the same fears - whether it was deliberately done so, I don't claim to know. My assumption was that in a discussion on AI, the comment about the terminator was not alluding to a literary metaphor but to a fear from the actual thing. There was no intent in downplaying the fear of AI - just adding a new perspective. I'm am curious to know what you think self-awareness has to do with any of this.