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Sigh.. Is there anything better now though? All I see from AI, is an amplification of the enshittification of the internet. And people being even more alone.
by bubblegumcrisis 24d ago
Sigh..
Is there anything better now though?
All I see from AI, is an amplification of the enshittification of the internet.
And people being even more alone.
- kilroy123 24d agoWell, there is more renewable energy than ever before powering the world. It's all being built and added to the grid faster and faster each year. That's one big plus.
- runjake 24d agoThen you’re either spending time in the wrong parts of the internet or doing things that don't fulfill you. These times are exciting and rough seas make good sailors. Find your path forward.
- ashetr 24d agoWhat is exciting about getting pablum spoonfed by a data center owned by trillionaires? I'd rather go to the library and read a book.
- theoreticalmal 24d agoYour legs broke? Go do that
- 2shag15 24d agoWhat does it have to do with legs? This site has turned a mental hospital with AI patients.
- corysama 24d agoIt's an expression. "You're legs broke?" here means "What's stopping you from going to the library and reading a book?"
- LevGoldstein 24d agoIt's a grovel-for-investor-dollars site that we've long pretended is for serious technical discussion. Comments should always be filtered through that lens.
- brookst 24d agoWhy in the world are you choosing to live that way? I'm writing the best music of my life, realizing games and art projects I never had time for, and writing higher quality software in addition to dramatically more of it. Who has time for pablum? How exactly are you using these tools that you have that experience?
- ted_dunning 24d agoYou are actually not doing much of that. You have become a spectator.
- senordevnyc 24d agoWho is stopping you?
- runjake 24d agoYou can do both. I still find time to read a couple books a month. You have agency and can choose your own adventures. If you don't like something, don't do it.
- snozolli 24d agoFalse dichotomies make for terrible conversation. "Find your path forward!" he shouted with glee, as he ran toward the cliff.
- runjake 24d agoSo do platitudes.
- AbsurdCensor 24d agoSure, when you look a little wider, since 2000 we have seen the following major improvements: - Extreme poverty has dropped from 30% to under 10% globally. - Child mortality rates have dropped in half - Internet access has exploded from 10% to 70% - Solar energy costs have dropped 90% - Cancer death rates have declined by 30% All of these massive improvements in less than 30 years. While there certainly are issues to solve, and if you simply follow journalism you may think the world is worse off, but for many, their lives have been significantly improved.
- minhaz23 24d agoIs that AI / compute driven?
- rowanG077 24d agoAI in the sense of LLMs is too new to really make an impact yet. But it is compute driven. Modern science and engineering would be impossible as we do it now without high-end compute.
- brookst 24d agoIn part, sure. From drug discovery to crop yields to education, compute and AI have material benefits. It's kind of shocking that anyone could doubt this. Evidence: * https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09809 https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09809 * https://phys.org/news/2016-12-mobile-money-access-percent-kenyan.html https://phys.org/news/2016-12-mobile-money-access-percent-ke... * https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3893351 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3893351 This being HN, I hasten to add they also have massive downsides, we're all doomed, nobody programs the right way anymore, those poor people just think compute & AI are improving their lives, etc, etc.
- AbsurdCensor 24d agoAbsolutely computer driven. It's hard to say the impact of AI, let's give it the same 25 years of computer advancements.
- SamPatt 24d ago
- cedws 24d agoJust like the computer revolution, it will make a small number of people richer and put everyone else at their mercy. In real terms the average person is far poorer than in the 20th century. Used to be able to buy a home and support a family on a single income. Now it can take two just to survive.
- marknutter 24d agoI wonder if doubling the workforce had anything to do with that..
- svachalek 24d agoYou're right, probably nothing to do with moving all manufacturing out of the country or Reagan's union busting.
- marknutter 17d agoThose played a huge part as well. Well, not so much the union busting.
- senordevnyc 24d agoIn real terms, the median human globally today is vastly richer than at any point during the twentieth century. And the median American is also richer in real terms, both in terms of wealth and in terms of income. Of course, that all assumes that you use a reasonable measure of inflation that’s stable, well-designed, and applied methodically and consistently over many decades. Alternatively, you can cherry pick data points and go based on vibes, which lets claim whatever you want!
- anonym29 17d ago>Of course, that all assumes that you use a reasonable measure of inflation that’s stable, well-designed, and applied methodically and consistently over many decades. Too bad the measure that everyone points to is far from stable¹; BLS's various CPIs² have been consistently and substantially modified over time, and not for purposes aligned with the interests of consumers³. ¹ https://www.bls.gov/cpi/additional-resources/historical-changes.htm https://www.bls.gov/cpi/additional-resources/historical-chan... ² https://www.shadowstats.com/article/cpi-glossary https://www.shadowstats.com/article/cpi-glossary ³ https://www.shadowstats.com/article/no-438-public-comment-on-inflation-measurement https://www.shadowstats.com/article/no-438-public-comment-on...