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Look, Radium in watches is the future, every watch has it, you should just relax

It is what Sweeney was saying the NFTs made possible. And i don't respect blockchain and crypto as a technology enough to say that replacing them with Epic's servers and v-bucks is a fundamental difference as far as mocking him for being the last NFT peddler goes.

I have never knowingly used any sort of blockchain technology. I'm not sufficiently tech-savvy for that and I also have no real interest in using it

A single theatre 9 years ago that no longer shows 4DX films isn't exactly "Still in Use".

Those are all pieces of what the metaverse promised. The metaverse itself is dead. You’re looking at scattered LEGO bricks left behind after someone cleaned up a shattered build. The build’s gone, those bricks are not the same construct anymore

of course it isn't???? when does anything mean that. it means "functionally stop existing". you can still emit chlorofluorocarbons if you really want to

They're not as popular as you think tbh

"unlike" not "I like"

if you're asking when it's been a result of people deciding not to use something on ethical grounds rather than not wanting to because it's shit, a) heaps of times b) same fucking thing

Nothing says "good faith discussion" quite like when someone gives you the "Hey everyone I saw you made a point here but have you considered you're wrong if I add a completely ridiculous condition you didn't say?" treatment.

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Twoja stara, na ten przykład

People like to act like shitty things suddenly stop being shitty just because time has passed. No.

It's like people who can't fathom a future without cars. You know we're a society right? We can just go "actually the benefits do not outweigh the costs" and outlaw shit, and it'll be gone forever.

👓: I don't care if it's in everything, I'm not losing to AI. I will John Henry that shit.

There might be some people who sincerely mean this but there are definitely people using it as a bad-faith rhetorical bludgeon against criticism of LLM usage

anyone can say no. tell them you refuse to use it in your project and will stop any project that uses it.

"Ai is inevitable" is a cult recruitment line. I tune out every soul that utters it and so should you. It's a gimmick, a wasteful gimmick that does more to hurt you than does anything remotely helpful.

In coding it means that even with factoring in edits, and rewrites, they still estimate you will be more time efficient than you were. And even if you don't you'll look busier, "more productive". You'll also demonstrate the engagement with AI use that many CEOs are mandating.

It's the exact same FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) language the cryptocurrency and NFT bros would use: YNGMI ("You're not gonna make it") It's no surprise how many of the lay person AI boosters on Xitter you can dig back a few years and find them talking about how fugly JPGs are the future of art.

I'm mildly sure they said the same thing about chlorofluorocarbons in the 80s. Hair spray and cheap refrigeration is the future, you are just going to have to get over missing the ozone layer.

The engine itself is coded using ai, not just the AI features.

Unfortunately, the engine itself is being written with AI coding tools these days. The way I'm seeing it - I can't avoid it completely, but I can make choices to avoid the most blatant AIgen code. I can't fully vet every single library, plugin or engine component though.

Or keeping your middle-management job and getting to see your family after being forced at gunpoint to slap me on the face with that swamp-water-soaked clutch of weedy cliches.

I'm afraid it's not far away from the truth. In a sense that each few examples of sloppy and blatant ai gen there is like 1000 of when it's not noticeable at all. Nobody should be relaxed about it though

it's a self-fulfilling prophecy they use to excuse themselves from culpability for their decision to embrace the technology and all the evils it brings.

"the dick is already in, you should just shut up and take it"

I won't stop fighting it till either i'm dead, or it is.

People need to stop acting as if technology can only go forward. Not every idea is an innovation! See, for example: that time companies started putting radium in water because radioactivity was the new cool fad. We stopped after people got cancer.

People like to trot out agricultural water and energy use too, as if that’s not something keeping the whole dang population fed being compared to replacing competent labor with cheap facsimiles for no better purpose than to further enrich the wealthy. It’s an apples to hand grenades comparison

Exactly. I can’t always choose to forgo engaging with harmful systems, but I can choose to do my damn best to avoid perpetuating harm. I can choose to write an email with my own brain and draw art with my own hands.

How can neo-Luddites avoid AI situation of being Skynet-like doom? I am not sure what controversy might happen.

Also a common defense among collaborators and history does not tend to look favorably on them.

Just lobotomize it. github.com/raphire/win1...

They technically are mandatory on steam. People disobeying it is breaking the guidelines.

Your first sentence is universally applicable, unfortunately.

“We can't put the genie back in the bottle” = “I won't risk being the first to take a stance because I'm mostly worried about being in the race to money”

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It's just like the metaverse we couldn't prevent and had to accept that we all use it now

“shit has to stop, it's not remotely true.” There are lots of stuff “not remotely true” coming from MAGA and MAGA is no showing any sign of stopping. It ain’t even “artificial”.

"AI is here, better get used to it because there's no stopping what's coming" - people with a vested interest in widespread adoption of AI

This. thing about genie's is. they absolutely CAN be put back in the bottle. and in most stories, usually are, after they've been forced with the third wish to clean up the shit the first two wishes caused.

They are insistently trying to sell a fake consensus.

Imagine if people had believed that about dogshit in the 80s.