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i once made a joke about how once you turn 30 the government mails you a bottle of tums and i got scolded about how tums is actually not good for heartburn and they hate how people say otherwise. i figured they struggle with heartburn in a different way than i do. i tried something new: ignored them

evangelists who demand acknowledgement that ai is useful from people who do not find it useful have to work on something within themselves. people who do not find ai useful who spend their time scolding this kind of evangelist are never going to stop feeling like they're losing the battle

most communication gaps parallel an emotional intelligence gap which is not surprising to experience entering tech-centric discourse. i do wish tech people would listen to artisans more, a lot can be learned from them when you meet them as equals and not as expendable

I would also say that very passionate evangelists in the former category unable to understand that the technology could put them in the latter category quite soon is somewhat maddening. I’ve also seen so many people offload their cognition to the point of regressing to adult infant mode.

i don’t get why evangelists feel so entitled to positive regard it’s so much more intense entitlement than any previous “war” we’ve seen before (languages, editors, operating systems etc). and they don’t even seem to enjoy arguing, they want to be praised and told they’re correct

how about we reach a compromise and AI enthusiasts can evangelize as much as they want but only to LLMs

ironically they only want approval from humans who don’t want to give it to them.