Why the fuck should it be up to the kids to figure it out? We're the ones executing.
Sorry, did you read the article? I understood the premise as whatever the society evolves to, the kids will figure it out and will be alright.
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MinimalAction commented on Don't push AI down our throats gpt3experiments.substack.... · Posted by u/nutanc
My Healthcare providers App in Germany refuses to work on anything that isn't a Phone running official Google^tm verified^(r) and hardware attested OS. Same with some banks.
I feel things like these should be illegal. There must be other genuine ways to verify the end user.
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Kudos! That could be something really useful. I would have loved to see a demo without creating an account.
MinimalAction commented on Don't push AI down our throats gpt3experiments.substack.... · Posted by u/nutanc
No one with a white-collar job in the US can get away from Google and Microsoft. We're forced to use one or the other, and some of us are forced to use both.
That's not to mention all the other tech companies pushing AI (which is honestly all of them).
Agreed. At the level of companies, it is hard to find any practical solution. Personally, I am trying to do what I can.
MinimalAction commented on The Kids Will Be Alright ben-mini.com/2025/the-kid... · Posted by u/bewal416
I have heard this ever so often that kids (read society) will figure it out and this-is-all-part-of-the-evolution song. Not to be a pessimistic parade on this outlook, but this attitude is not helpful at all. It feels as if the burden of proof is left on someone who has no mental model of this emerging world to figure their livelihood on.
Sure, people say this is how they felt in their teens too, but the wealth inequality now makes many avenues of income less worthwhile.
Kids might still figure out after all; but do not make it sound as if it is no big deal.
MinimalAction commented on Don't push AI down our throats gpt3experiments.substack.... · Posted by u/nutanc
This might be obvious but I think the only way forwards is to disengage in services offered by these mega-tech companies. Degoogling has become popular enough to foster open communities that prioritize their time and effort to keep softwares free from parasitic enterprises.
For instance, I am fiddling with LineageOS on a Pixel (ironically enough) that minimizes my exposure to Google's AI antics. That doesn't mean to say it is easy or sustainable, but enough of us need to stop participating in their bad bets to force upon that realization.
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MinimalAction commented on Three Years from GPT-3 to Gemini 3 oneusefulthing.org/p/thre... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross
They way it was stated it appeared to me like "we should do research the heavy way even if the machine gives us the right answer", or that we should value research only if it was accomplished manually.
I guess there are many ways to interpret the comment, with a lot of potential for disagreement.
My whole point was that we can't be sure the machine gives you right answer especially in research where much of it is uncharted territories.
There aren't many ways to interpret and I clarified what I meant. Thanks for participating, these comments are insufferable.
MinimalAction commented on Three Years from GPT-3 to Gemini 3 oneusefulthing.org/p/thre... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross
For one, I can't even understand this part:
> I don't know if it represents research as a field would not be immune to advances in AI tech
And then there's the opinion that for some reason we should 'value' manual labor over using AI, which seems rather disagreeable.
> For one, I can't even understand this part:
Let me explain. My belief was that research as a task is non-trivial and would have been relatively out of reach for AI. Given the advances, that doesn't seem to be true.
> And then there's the opinion that for some reason we should 'value' manual labor over using AI, which seems rather disagreeable.
Could you explain why? I'm specifically talking about research. Of course, I would value what a veteran in the field says higher than a probability machine.
Otherwise, I'm trying to abstain from smart phone usage as much as possible: the market is probably _never_ going to solve one which solves addiction problem. (the best solution for this is to have a desktop computer which you only sit at for specific tasks)
On the other hand, if I could run my company's OTP and it were much more private than iOS or Android I would probably jump ship.