This is an entirely weird and bizarre conversation.
This is an entirely weird and bizarre conversation. The world today has network effects - specifically because of well, networking. It feels almost ridiculous comparing the impact of things like ENIAC to github because they aren't even in the same class. GIT and email (FYI, there is a predecessor to email in 1965 called MAIL) are specific implementations of systems that would have happened no matter what. GIT is awesome, email is kinda ok -- but that's beside the point. > Forcefully. By a mixture of free offerings and bundling AI in every tools with no disable button. It's still not an essential tech like email or Linux is (not even essential at the level of GitHub). We could survive without computers and the internet. We did it. I was there. We could go back. It's not essential. You've lived maybe 3 years with LLMs. No kidding they could disappear. As an old person, I have no idea why you think any other technology is any different. LLMs are new, that's the big difference as I said earlier. > Forcefully. So.... I hate mobile apps. I hate that TVs connect to the internet. I hate that we have cameras on every corner. I hate that we have cameras that watch us while driving. Now, tell me about how this is different than all that.
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i have been going thru this for years now and because this attaches to contacts i have literally destroyed my family life.
I did the same thing this year, and I agree it's been one of the best decisions I've made.
If 30 years ago someone suggested breaking into your house to take away your Nintendo games or remotely disabling them by sending somethi...
This is an entirely weird and bizarre conversation.
I hate that our solution to the modern Internet is to engage in technical warfare just to make it usable.
To me it counts as a trope and the guidelines ask as to avoid posting Internet tropes, for the very reason that they’re more likely to el...
The New Delhi judge however went further, ordering sweeping new measures that tech experts say have rewritten rules of internet governanc...
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This is an entirely weird and bizarre conversation.
This is an entirely weird and bizarre conversation. The world today has network effects - specifically because of well, networking. It feels almost ridiculous comparing the impact of things like ENIAC to github because they aren't even in the same class. GIT and email (FYI, there is a predecessor to email in 1965 called MAIL) are specific implementations of systems that would have happened no matter what. GIT is awesome, email is kinda ok -- but that's beside the point. > Forcefully. By a mixture of free offerings and bundling AI in every tools with no disable button. It's still not an essential tech like email or Linux is (not even essential at the level of GitHub). We could survive without computers and the internet. We did it. I was there. We could go back. It's not essential. You've lived maybe 3 years with LLMs. No kidding they could disappear. As an old person, I have no idea why you think any other technology is any different. LLMs are new, that's the big difference as I said earlier. > Forcefully. So.... I hate mobile apps. I hate that TVs connect to the internet. I hate that we have cameras on every corner. I hate that we have cameras that watch us while driving. Now, tell me about how this is different than all that.
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