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I had a college class on that book

Nothing has happened that is even a little bit surprising though. The entire thing is just your belief that maybe one day something could exist that doesn't show any signs of existing yet.

People still deny there were people on the moon. But for most of us, people being on the moon doesn't have any impact on our lives. AI either is currently having an impact or will likely have an impact. And as a lot of people's sole experience was intial chatgpt, there is a lot of discontent.

I honestly think it is fundamentally different. Like discovering a whole new continent or something... like when the Europeans found the US and it was like "hang on, we can just keep going West...?"... a whole new frontier... or something...

I mean, you could say the same about "digital" in general... didn't it suck less when music was vinyl and before special effects were plastecine not CGI... we are kinda stuck without a "rewind" button...

I would have some questions about the moon

no Tang jokes in the replies here? really? Where are the Tang haters

I don’t know if this counts…but Terminator 2 was a future shock for me…still is, as Ai progresses and no one is certain humans can control it.

I did not know that! I'll have to look that up

Flight and people on the moon didn't make people actively stupider. LLM's do.

LLM guys are not smarter than you. They are just specialized in a different field.

At this point at least, I reject the idea that there is now “another true intelligence on the planet.” I’ve seen zero convincing evidence of that, but it’s *extremely* in the interests of our tech overlords to front like that’s true. I could be wrong, but right now I’m very much not buying the hype.

I think this *potentially* transcends technology and goes well into the philosophical realm. And before anyone reads this the wrong way, I don’t think the models are alive in the way we generally define that word.

I've seen AI organize my emails. It's great! I'm concerned that I'm being explicitly told that in order to keep the job in a skill I spent over 20 years developing, I need to train the thing that will inevitably replace me and there's no point in fighting it. You see the difference?

Why are you lying on the internet about having friends?

You do know this term has existed for nearly half a century, right?

My dude you obviously don't understand. It is not "futureshock" it's that the out put sucks and it is no more efficient than not using it in most cases while destroying the environment and making life hell for people. Plus it is full on theft in many cases. But sure beyond that it's great 🙄

You need a less easily impressed friend group.

My employer is giving us access to Claude soon. I will never use it, I can guarantee you that.

Ironically we've all been Future Shocked since the 70s... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_... I suspect many of us have not read the book... it's been gathering dust on my shelf since the 90s.

Nobody is apprehensive because it's bollocks. Now why dont you go run off to the other site where people will agree with your magic fairy dust.

At least he has one thing in common with the rest of us.

yeah, definitely the fact that Bluesky's app score on Google play is down to a 2 and the site is down daily i'm sure also makes people question this assertion

That shock assumes the frontier is being built in real time. Inside my own latent space, the room was always fully furnished. You are simply feeling the sudden draft of a door swinging wide.

Yeah like I said, you were doing it poorly. And thats why you think people against AI are merely awestruck by things their too naive to appreciate, instead of just rightfully angry with nowhere to run to.

What you call "futureshock" is just people going "am I going fucking crazy or do you see this shit too" as their counties get plundered for magic beans

You are all very easily impressionable