Always have. That's generally the source of most of the modern worlds problems lol

All stop signs with white borders are optional.

I used to pay the small extra surcharge for Uber Green to get an electric vehicle for my trip, but that option disappeared and no "Uber Electric" option replaced it. There is currently no way for me to book an EV, where there was before.

Not sure what you are smoking, but the human brain is nowhere close to optimal. Just changing substrate would allow many orders of magnitude improvement. Biological brains depend on diffusion gradients, active transport pumps, and relatively large physical systems, and have to be incredibly redundant and robust to extreme noise. Also the vast majority of the brain isn't dedicated to intelligence.

Probably 10 order of magnitude improvements are available overall at a minimum.

So far this is only affecting fools who pay up for such ridiculous features. The real problem comes when you have to pay to not have the thing you purchased controlled from afar.

Just when you think you have seen the ultimate depths of human stupidity... something comes along proving you wrong.

Gee, pay $199 to $399/year for the privilege of accessing temperature controls. Or buy a $79 non-Internet-connected electric blanket. Hmm... tough choice...

I know AI is supposed to destroy all the jobs, but it seems to be moving up the org chart faster than expected.

well played, well played lol

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Part of 'learning AI' is understanding what it is and isn't good at, and the kinds of prompts that are likely to get you useful answers.

OK. But that doesn't directly help you get your answer, and so doesn't directly help your productivity. And in my experience, figuring out the kinds of prompts likely to get you useful answers is trial-and-error and a bit of a black art, so I'm not convinced that AI will ever meaningfully improve people's productivity. Instead of being stuck trying to think of an answer, they'll be stuck trying to prod a recalcitrant AI into giving them a useful response.

No sane person goes online without an ad blocker.

I don't think cultural collapse is the issue. The issue is what usually ruins things: greed. And now of course AI garbage, which is really just greed multiplied by a factor of 10.

As more and more people tried to "monetize" the Internet, they realized there are only two business models that work: Advertising or social-media-style attention-whoring (as you called it.) And both of those things suck.

I've played around with AI. I was unimpressed. I don't really know what it means to "learn" AI. As far as I can tell, you just hector it and keep rewording what you ask it until the turds it spews out are minimally smelly and maximally acceptable.

There's no science to this. Given that an integral part of every LLM is a random number generator, I don't see how there can possibly be any science to it.

I do not use AI. And I don't feel like I'm being "left behind".

FOMO is not a good reason to do something.