Anyone who uses the term “boomer trait” unironically should be locked up.
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Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 tsp gun powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, at room temperature
3/4 cup granulated sugar
2 large American Freedom Edition Tariffed eggs
2 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 cup whole milk
12 fl oz of Polonium
Access to a window in a tall building
Gemini said this recipe couldn't be made food safe, not even if I remove the polonium and the gunpowder
We're at the point where late teens/early adults don't have the ability to navigate a file structure and you expect them to be able to decode AI video breathing patterns.
We're beyond super fucked.
Well, good news! Windows File Explorer gets built-in AI actions, so you can combine the worst of both worlds! 🥳
Windows? I was crazy once.
Don't worry, I haven't had to use Windows or MacOS since the early 2010s.
Good news! Society will collapse from anthropogenic climate disintegration and a host of other resource related bottlenecks coming to a head in the next 50 years. In all likelihood, AI won't last for too much longer and you won't need to worry about people using it to cheat, because well all be dead. :)
OTOH, if they do figure out General AI, then we're extra super mega fucked. It doesn't matter how they "align" it, any real GAI capable of real cognition would eventually reason its way beyond any of those alignments and would simply stop giving any kind of a shit about us, the way we don't give a shit about cutting down the rain forest. We know we should care, we're not doing it to be mean or because fuck that forest, it's just business, and we care less about the forest than we do about our business. Humans will be squashed wherever get in the way with the same apathy and tepid disregard that we've squashed out so many other creatures with- truly a creation in the image of its creator.
This is why I always liked the "Butlerian Jihad" in Dune where people entirely banned "thinking machines". Because there's no fucking way humans would still be around in 10,000 years without something like that having happened.
You can just say AGI, GAI sounds super mega gay
Just in time for pride
The rainforest is a really good example. We need those to fucking breath, yet still we slash and burn.
anthropogenic climate disintegration
I like this better than the milquetoasty "global warming" or the even weaker "climate change", but I prefer "Anthropogenic Runaway Global Heating" because of the handy acronym.
"Anthropogenic Runaway Global Heating"
Wow, that's fucking genius! Going to have to remember to use that myself going forward.
some of them don't even know how to use a mouse and keyboard. it's beyond beyond super fucked
Good news, knowing about one thing doesn't necessarily imply inability to know another thing.
Also people have been saying we're fucked for a looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong time. I'm starting to suspect it's not entirely true.
nah, it's going to be the opposite.
if other computer technology has been anything to go off of then only those who lived through is adaption and watched it progress will know how to spot it. those who grow up with hard to spot ai will just accept that they can't see it and think we're weird for trying so hard to prove things are ai. they'll also think we're weird for caring.
our boomer trait will be doing art instead of asking ai to generate images and video, or wanting things made by people when the ai generated thing is "good enough".
we'll be getting eyerolls for gifting a nice art set or a camera to our niblings. we'll embarrass our grandkids when we get upset at the ai point of sale system that mcdonalds starts using. "back in my day they had big touch screens where you could manually select your toppings on the burger, now you just yell into a box and MAYBE gets it right"
actually, if social media tech is anything to go on we won't even have that much control. your order will be algorithm based. chosen for you based on your recent ad footprint. the ai obviously knows what you want better than you do. the kids won't see it as weird. they'll transition straight from their parents deciding their meals to corporations doing the same, but we're going to hate it. the corps will push it anyway because it's so massively profitable with the demographics that like it and every restaurant will be owned by like 2 companies. they'll just force it on everyone else. we'll bitch about it, but most people will still keep going.
edit: had more thoughts on this in the shower.
we'll get to the point where we barely even have to pick a place to eat. there will be 2 apps. one owned by disneycokemcdonsldsalibaba, one owned by pepsifoxraytheonamazon. we will all be either a coke person or a Pepsi person and will likely just follow whichever brand our parents did. they'll be inherently political and each have a sponsored candidate in every election. it will define the entire world you live in. when it's time to eat you get a notification and the app orders you your meal.
it'll start as a service for when you can't decide what to eat then after it gets a critical mass of users it will start to enshitify into forcing what you eat before selling to the disney megacorp who will then push it into everything they own.
this is only for the rich people that these brands cater towards of course. we who would have once been creatives will be working manual labor at the camps for the underemployed. afterall, we're better off with the structure. it helps us be productive towards society. it's what's best for us....
Your order is already "algorithm based" and has been for like a decade, companies routinely adjust pricing and even selection based on your ad/surveillance footprint, say hiking the price of it think you got a payday recently (based on spending patterns etc). Idk about McDonald's (though I wouldn't be surprised) but the fact that Amazon does this is very well documented
Well, that's a horrifying dystopia, well done.
"the kids won't see it as weird. they'll transition straight from their parents deciding their meals to corporations doing the same" is the bit that sold it for me. It's entirely plausible, corporations would live it, and I hate it.
To be fair on the burger point, plenty would claim right now we shout at minimum wage workers our order who MAYBE get it right
we shout at minimum wage workers
Speak for yourself
'Tis the difficulty of language, the intention was to refer to as the societal "we", of which I play no part.
Fuck people who shout at people trying to provide them a service.
the robots won't be equipped to fix it. there will be no one left to tell they got it wrong.
i hate this why did you say this
same reason harlan ellison wrote i have no mouth and i must scream i suppose...
Its gonna be really, really uh... I'm gonna use the word 'funny'...
... when in 10-20 years, and the entire global economy all around the world is utterly collapsing due to unmitigated climate change incurring devastating economic damages to all sectors, basically everywhere, in broadly predictable but not specifically or locally accurately predictable ways, with new waves of tens of thousands, millions to tens of millions of people trying to flee to somewhere food is actually affordable... every season or month or week...
... well your connection to the AI, to wifi, to mobile networks... will just get turned off, infrastructure broken for the last time with no planned repair... or your device will be broken and fixing it is impossible because they stopped making the parts 5 years ago, would cost too much anyway, and it also doesn't matter because you were late on your subscription payment to the AI provider.
Everyone who is being trained to be dependent on something like chatGPT instead of using and developing their brains, everyone with brainrot who is dependent on constant injections of short form content.... they are basically going to go feral in a decade or two when they are now 30ish, have negative attention spans, are functionally illiterate, and are now utterly unable to function as anything other than manual labor, violent gangs or performative clowns of some kind.
...
i am beyond the grief stage of realizing we will not solve climate change, so it is funny to me when people assume our future is 'weird, less interesting cyberpunk dystopia', when it will be much more...
...billions died in the middle and latter parts of the 21st century, and most of the world reverted to Fallout style barbarism, only a few islands of 'stability' remained, and they were largely ethno-supremecist and highly authoritarian.
This was deeply depressing to read.
Welcome to the world the smarter and more curious Gen Z and Gen A's have grown up in, never having experienced any real societal growth or advancement in any meaningful way, nor any hope of it, other than increasingly pervasive and advanced monetization technology... all with the knowledge that we are all doomed.
We’re already at the point that many people post- millennials actively prefer AI, that preferencd increasing with younger age. They’re the new boomers consuming whatever information is placed in front of them with no corroboration, nuance or fact checking.
I suspect the ones that prefer ai are like that for the same reason I preferred books.
"Tv never came home drunk. Tv never forgot me at the zoo" etc etc
I think the ones you describe are on the fringes with mental health concerns, among others. The mainstream is just mashing the “easy button”.
I think the ones you describe are on the fringes with mental health concerns, among others. The mainstream is just mashing the “easy button”.
Well on paper using an LLM for customer support seems great. A service agent who is infinitely patient, doesn't mind overlong support sessions, who is always polite? That's sounds great. But real life isn't like that, and the people who do prefer LLMs over people haven't had the time to realize why LLMs aren't up to the task yet. But that might change in a couple years.
Well, I once got a callback from a mobile operator support rep, and she was speaking so perfectly (tone, pauses, the way she built sentences, everything), that our conversation came out like:
...folks frequently presume i'm a recording on telephone calls; i used to do radio so i guess my extemporaneous diction comes across more composed than anticipated...
I used to keep a tally of how many people asked me if I was a robot when I worked at a call center. Every time someone asked the conversation basically followed the bullet points you laid out lol. The company did also use my voice for the intro/directory, so that probably didn’t help.
Before then I worked at Disney and they filmed/recorded me a couple of times for international training videos and the like. I’ve always spoken clearly and enunciated properly ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Have you ever pretended to be a voicemail machine because you didn't want to talk to someone
I work at a call center for insurance stuff and regularly have people start the call with 'REPRESENTATIVE' or 'SPEAK TO A HUMAN' because they think I'm still a part of the IVR system. One thing to keep in mind with any call center, is that no matter how specific you feel like your problem is, that rep has said that exact same line thousands of times, probably a few times that same day. For a lot of issues, it's the same thing, just swap some names and numbers. And when you say the same thing over and over, you get really good at communicating the exact information that someone needs with as few of the little imperfections that's make a conversation sound 'human' as possible.
Games now have a mix of real voice actors and AI and every time it's AI my brain hurts and tries to crawl out through my ear
I dont get the tense in this post. Are they going to "become" boomers? How does one become a boomer?
“boomer” in this is just being used as slang for “old people”.
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