My personal belief is that AI is eventually going to force the populous back to more face-to-face interactions. There will be a breaking point where people can’t take the “is this a human or a bot” guessing game any longer.

This is my hope, I'm not sure I believe it will happen, at least not in my life time. Despite reading this tech forum right now, I've been taking steps to heavily reduce my reliance on technology-for-technology's sake. But how you encourage others to? I'm not totally sure. So far I talk about it (to people, face-to-face) but everyone is still staring at their smartphone.

I have a strong suspicion that this will be the true butlerian jihad of our world. We have already started seeing information silos in the form of discord groups. Social media users are increasingly privatising their pages, allowing access for known users only. Reddit is still surviving because of the large userbase there.

The expectation of quality is slowly being chipped away. And it appears the HN community is prepared to “nuance” that expectation out of existence.

Computer science, in general, has always had a habit of not being precise with language. That's only getting worse with AI.

>our current understanding of the biological brain is pretty much an organic neural network

This is just plainly wrong.

So what is correct?

Hormones, neurotransmitters, genetic expression, and a mountain of biology.

It's leading us toward the Cult Mechanicus from Warhammer 40k.

Right...so why would I read something trying to convince me that HOAs are making the crisis worse, and actually be swayed by it?

Because you're a human and you can reassess judgements after absorbing information?

I guess you could be in a LLM, in which case you'd have to wait for retraining.

Most of us aren't nihilists.

At this level of tortured language, he could have shot the car out of a fucking cannon and it would count as flying.

It’s really hard to get a good read on it because of the state of the post-COVID economy and job market.

Like the mass layoffs the last couple of years seemed to be primarily driven by the goofy hiring spree every company went on during the pandemic and the AI reasoning was only partly true and mostly a coverup for their mistakes in hiring in previous years.

On the other hand, the amount of garbage level devs that were being churned out of bootcamps and such in the years leading up to COVID was also due for some kind of correction and AI may be the catalyst for that correction.

I’ve been around devs making an easy 6 figures that did nothing but copy/paste code from the internet or other parts of the codebase and spew jank into the repo because management needs the work done yesterday.

OpenAI and Anthropic say a lot of shit to keep investments flowing in while they try to find an avenue for profitability.