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Okay, let's get this straight. I have trouble taking compliments for my work.
I was raised in 1990s Poland, you could say it was on the border between two eras. It was a time of newly realized freedom, when people thought that the possibilities were now endless and you had to grab them, you had to compete for them.
You didn't compliment kids for their work, that would spoil them. You could compliment kids for their looks (not me, though, I apparently had "other qualities"). But not for their successes; you instead pointed out where they didn't succeed, or that they could do even better. Because that obviously motivates them to try harder, rather than causes them to stop trying at all, because what's the point. And of course you never complimented your employees, because they never deserved that, they were always the lazy little bastards, undeserving of the job you've given them, only looking how to steal your money. Well, you get my point.
So when I started interacting with people from other cultures, it's been a shock. I've been raised to be an asshole. Fortunately, at least some of them knew this part of "Eastern European" culture and bore with me. And I've got compliments, and real gratification, and my mindset slowly started changing. Honestly, when someone compliments me for my work, I still am uneasy and distrustful (are they being sarcastic?), but I can believe it's honest.
And here comes all the messed up #AI hype, and bootlicking machines. And most of them are mass generating false compliments and pleasantries, and what not. And people are repasting this slop everywhere, and learning from it, and talking like it. And now, whenever I see people being nice, I'm not just uneasy. I keep wondering: is this real, or is it slop? Am I talking to a person, or to a bot? Is this actually being nice, or is it awfully disrespectful?
I'm so tired of this timeline. How do you people stay sane?
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Okay, let's get this straight. I have trouble taking compliments for my work.
I was raised in 1990s Poland, you could say it was on the border between two eras. It was a time of newly realized freedom, when people thought that the possibilities were now endless and you had to grab them, you had to compete for them.
You didn't compliment kids for their work, that would spoil them. You could compliment kids for their looks (not me, though, I apparently had "other qualities"). But not for their successes; you instead pointed out where they didn't succeed, or that they could do even better. Because that obviously motivates them to try harder, rather than causes them to stop trying at all, because what's the point. And of course you never complimented your employees, because they never deserved that, they were always the lazy little bastards, undeserving of the job you've given them, only looking how to steal your money. Well, you get my point.
So when I started interacting with people from other cultures, it's been a shock. I've been raised to be an asshole. Fortunately, at least some of them knew this part of "Eastern European" culture and bore with me. And I've got compliments, and real gratification, and my mindset slowly started changing. Honestly, when someone compliments me for my work, I still am uneasy and distrustful (are they being sarcastic?), but I can believe it's honest.
And here comes all the messed up #AI hype, and bootlicking machines. And most of them are mass generating false compliments and pleasantries, and what not. And people are repasting this slop everywhere, and learning from it, and talking like it. And now, whenever I see people being nice, I'm not just uneasy. I keep wondering: is this real, or is it slop? Am I talking to a person, or to a bot? Is this actually being nice, or is it awfully disrespectful?
I'm so tired of this timeline. How do you people stay sane?
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Okay, let's get this straight. I have trouble taking compliments for my work.
I was raised in 1990s Poland, you could say it was on the border between two eras. It was a time of newly realized freedom, when people thought that the possibilities were now endless and you had to grab them, you had to compete for them.
You didn't compliment kids for their work, that would spoil them. You could compliment kids for their looks (not me, though, I apparently had "other qualities"). But not for their successes; you instead pointed out where they didn't succeed, or that they could do even better. Because that obviously motivates them to try harder, rather than causes them to stop trying at all, because what's the point. And of course you never complimented your employees, because they never deserved that, they were always the lazy little bastards, undeserving of the job you've given them, only looking how to steal your money. Well, you get my point.
So when I started interacting with people from other cultures, it's been a shock. I've been raised to be an asshole. Fortunately, at least some of them knew this part of "Eastern European" culture and bore with me. And I've got compliments, and real gratification, and my mindset slowly started changing. Honestly, when someone compliments me for my work, I still am uneasy and distrustful (are they being sarcastic?), but I can believe it's honest.
And here comes all the messed up #AI hype, and bootlicking machines. And most of them are mass generating false compliments and pleasantries, and what not. And people are repasting this slop everywhere, and learning from it, and talking like it. And now, whenever I see people being nice, I'm not just uneasy. I keep wondering: is this real, or is it slop? Am I talking to a person, or to a bot? Is this actually being nice, or is it awfully disrespectful?
I'm so tired of this timeline. How do you people stay sane?
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Okay, let's get this straight. I have trouble taking compliments for my work.
I was raised in 1990s Poland, you could say it was on the border between two eras. It was a time of newly realized freedom, when people thought that the possibilities were now endless and you had to grab them, you had to compete for them.
You didn't compliment kids for their work, that would spoil them. You could compliment kids for their looks (not me, though, I apparently had "other qualities"). But not for their successes; you instead pointed out where they didn't succeed, or that they could do even better. Because that obviously motivates them to try harder, rather than causes them to stop trying at all, because what's the point. And of course you never complimented your employees, because they never deserved that, they were always the lazy little bastards, undeserving of the job you've given them, only looking how to steal your money. Well, you get my point.
So when I started interacting with people from other cultures, it's been a shock. I've been raised to be an asshole. Fortunately, at least some of them knew this part of "Eastern European" culture and bore with me. And I've got compliments, and real gratification, and my mindset slowly started changing. Honestly, when someone compliments me for my work, I still am uneasy and distrustful (are they being sarcastic?), but I can believe it's honest.
And here comes all the messed up #AI hype, and bootlicking machines. And most of them are mass generating false compliments and pleasantries, and what not. And people are repasting this slop everywhere, and learning from it, and talking like it. And now, whenever I see people being nice, I'm not just uneasy. I keep wondering: is this real, or is it slop? Am I talking to a person, or to a bot? Is this actually being nice, or is it awfully disrespectful?
I'm so tired of this timeline. How do you people stay sane?
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Okay, let's get this straight. I have trouble taking compliments for my work.
I was raised in 1990s Poland, you could say it was on the border between two eras. It was a time of newly realized freedom, when people thought that the possibilities were now endless and you had to grab them, you had to compete for them.
You didn't compliment kids for their work, that would spoil them. You could compliment kids for their looks (not me, though, I apparently had "other qualities"). But not for their successes; you instead pointed out where they didn't succeed, or that they could do even better. Because that obviously motivates them to try harder, rather than causes them to stop trying at all, because what's the point. And of course you never complimented your employees, because they never deserved that, they were always the lazy little bastards, undeserving of the job you've given them, only looking how to steal your money. Well, you get my point.
So when I started interacting with people from other cultures, it's been a shock. I've been raised to be an asshole. Fortunately, at least some of them knew this part of "Eastern European" culture and bore with me. And I've got compliments, and real gratification, and my mindset slowly started changing. Honestly, when someone compliments me for my work, I still am uneasy and distrustful (are they being sarcastic?), but I can believe it's honest.
And here comes all the messed up #AI hype, and bootlicking machines. And most of them are mass generating false compliments and pleasantries, and what not. And people are repasting this slop everywhere, and learning from it, and talking like it. And now, whenever I see people being nice, I'm not just uneasy. I keep wondering: is this real, or is it slop? Am I talking to a person, or to a bot? Is this actually being nice, or is it awfully disrespectful?
I'm so tired of this timeline. How do you people stay sane?
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Thinking about the latest claims from the LLM camp, especially from one ex-Anthropic employee…
There are two mutually-exclusive possibilities.
1. They are right, nasty civilisation-destroying LLMs want us for lunch and we've got until 2030 before civilisation as we know it, ends.
2. This is another media stunt… like the time when agents supposedly "hacked" each-other (OpenAI and Anthropic a few months back)… or when they supposedly became "sentient" (Blake Lemoine's claim that got him sacked from Google back in 2022)Next year I'll be unemployed. I've got enough money in the war-chest to survive, especially if I'm careful about what I spend money on. Definitely enough to last 3 years.
The job market is not looking good for an ethical coding job here in Brisbane… and while I could train to do data cabling or electrical work (which can't be automated by a LLM), no one is going to hire a mid-aged apprentice who doesn't drive.
Anything that can be done from home, is potentially something that some C-suite manager will think can be automated with a LLM, so those jobs are no longer safe.
Better I just up-skill myself at my own pace… Brush up on my C++, maybe learn some Rust… whatever. Do stuff that makes me happy. If option 1 is indeed true, I'll have spent 3 years in effective "retirement" doing things that bring me joy. If it's option 2, then those things have probably kept my skills sharp enough to be competitive against those who relied on LLMs and are now struggling with doing it "the old way".
#NoLLM (edit: my maths was off)
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True digital literacy isn't generated; it's understood. 💡
On this Literacy Day, step away from the opaque shortcuts of AI, dive into the clean NetBSD source code, and empower human curiosity from the bare metal up. Read the source, master the system, and keep human craftsmanship alive. 📖⚙️
RTFM (Read the Fantastic Manual)
#NetBSD #LiteracyDay #DigitalLiteracy #ReadTheSource #CodeLiteracy #HumanIntelligence #runBSD #Linux #Unix #RTFM #internationalliteracyday #noai #antiai #nollm #antillm
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True digital literacy isn't generated; it's understood. 💡
On this Literacy Day, step away from the opaque shortcuts of AI, dive into the clean NetBSD source code, and empower human curiosity from the bare metal up. Read the source, master the system, and keep human craftsmanship alive. 📖⚙️
RTFM (Read the Fantastic Manual)
#NetBSD #LiteracyDay #DigitalLiteracy #ReadTheSource #CodeLiteracy #HumanIntelligence #runBSD #Linux #Unix #RTFM #internationalliteracyday #noai #antiai #nollm #antillm
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True digital literacy isn't generated; it's understood. 💡
On this Literacy Day, step away from the opaque shortcuts of AI, dive into the clean NetBSD source code, and empower human curiosity from the bare metal up. Read the source, master the system, and keep human craftsmanship alive. 📖⚙️
RTFM (Read the Fantastic Manual)
#NetBSD #LiteracyDay #DigitalLiteracy #ReadTheSource #CodeLiteracy #HumanIntelligence #runBSD #Linux #Unix #RTFM #internationalliteracyday #noai #antiai #nollm #antillm
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True digital literacy isn't generated; it's understood. 💡
On this Literacy Day, step away from the opaque shortcuts of AI, dive into the clean NetBSD source code, and empower human curiosity from the bare metal up. Read the source, master the system, and keep human craftsmanship alive. 📖⚙️
RTFM (Read the Fantastic Manual)
#NetBSD #LiteracyDay #DigitalLiteracy #ReadTheSource #CodeLiteracy #HumanIntelligence #runBSD #Linux #Unix #RTFM #internationalliteracyday #noai #antiai #nollm #antillm
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True digital literacy isn't generated; it's understood. 💡
On this Literacy Day, step away from the opaque shortcuts of AI, dive into the clean NetBSD source code, and empower human curiosity from the bare metal up. Read the source, master the system, and keep human craftsmanship alive. 📖⚙️
RTFM (Read the Fantastic Manual)
#NetBSD #LiteracyDay #DigitalLiteracy #ReadTheSource #CodeLiteracy #HumanIntelligence #runBSD #Linux #Unix #RTFM #internationalliteracyday #noai #antiai #nollm #antillm
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I feel your pain.
Today my daughter came back from her first day in Year 9. She had the first session with her new maths teacher.
He used five minutes of the class to praise the virtues of AI, how it solves society's problems, and how their new AI homework tool would help them with their maths work.
He then handed out exercises, gave limited explanations, then let them do them in silence, then marked the answers true or false.
Pityfull. GenAI brings out the worst in everyone, even those who are committed and good at their work. With the teacher who is natively incompetent and passionfree, genAI results in active learning destruction.
My daughter, who normally is eager to cooperate and compromise, refuses to have even one more session in this class. I wrote to the school. From tomorrow, she will be in a different class.
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I feel your pain.
Today my daughter came back from her first day in Year 9. She had the first session with her new maths teacher.
He used five minutes of the class to praise the virtues of AI, how it solves society's problems, and how their new AI homework tool would help them with their maths work.
He then handed out exercises, gave limited explanations, then let them do them in silence, then marked the answers true or false.
Pityfull. GenAI brings out the worst in everyone, even those who are committed and good at their work. With the teacher who is natively incompetent and passionfree, genAI results in active learning destruction.
My daughter, who normally is eager to cooperate and compromise, refuses to have even one more session in this class. I wrote to the school. From tomorrow, she will be in a different class.
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I feel your pain.
Today my daughter came back from her first day in Year 9. She had the first session with her new maths teacher.
He used five minutes of the class to praise the virtues of AI, how it solves society's problems, and how their new AI homework tool would help them with their maths work.
He then handed out exercises, gave limited explanations, then let them do them in silence, then marked the answers true or false.
Pityfull. GenAI brings out the worst in everyone, even those who are committed and good at their work. With the teacher who is natively incompetent and passionfree, genAI results in active learning destruction.
My daughter, who normally is eager to cooperate and compromise, refuses to have even one more session in this class. I wrote to the school. From tomorrow, she will be in a different class.
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I feel your pain.
Today my daughter came back from her first day in Year 9. She had the first session with her new maths teacher.
He used five minutes of the class to praise the virtues of AI, how it solves society's problems, and how their new AI homework tool would help them with their maths work.
He then handed out exercises, gave limited explanations, then let them do them in silence, then marked the answers true or false.
Pityfull. GenAI brings out the worst in everyone, even those who are committed and good at their work. With the teacher who is natively incompetent and passionfree, genAI results in active learning destruction.
My daughter, who normally is eager to cooperate and compromise, refuses to have even one more session in this class. I wrote to the school. From tomorrow, she will be in a different class.
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I feel your pain.
Today my daughter came back from her first day in Year 9. She had the first session with her new maths teacher.
He used five minutes of the class to praise the virtues of AI, how it solves society's problems, and how their new AI homework tool would help them with their maths work.
He then handed out exercises, gave limited explanations, then let them do them in silence, then marked the answers true or false.
Pityfull. GenAI brings out the worst in everyone, even those who are committed and good at their work. With the teacher who is natively incompetent and passionfree, genAI results in active learning destruction.
My daughter, who normally is eager to cooperate and compromise, refuses to have even one more session in this class. I wrote to the school. From tomorrow, she will be in a different class.
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So, Codeberg (which is a FOSS/freedom-focused code hosting site) is run as a cooperative, with members able to nominate measures/policies and vote on them etc.
They just had a vote and approved policies making "AI" / LLM-based projects basically unwelcome there. The vote wasn't close; 70% voted in favour of the policy. It's not a hard & fast "if you use LLM, you're banned" or anything of the sort - it's quite a measured, reasoned stance.
The slopcoders are freaking out. They just don't understand how this is possible. Imagine! A community of people that makes their own decisions and you can't just make them do what you want or ignore them and consume their resources without their consent!
"I like slopcoding, actually" is turning out to be a *really* good litmus test for people you want to have absolutely nothing to do with your project or your community.
Look at some of the whining (this is the only reason I would ever link to YCombinator [1]):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49021856[1] Your occasional and irregular reminder: "Hacker" "News" is neither.
#NoAI #NoLLM #sloperator #slopcoding #vibecoding #consent #Codeberg #hosting #forge #community #FOSS #HackerNews #YCombinator
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Note: no "AI" / LLM was used in the production of this document. You can be confident that each grammar or spelling mistake, logic error, or counterfactual assertion in it is an organic, artisanally-produced fuckup personally made by me, especially for you.
#disclaimer #NoLLM #DocumentTemplate #template #document #AI #LLM #NoAI #mistake #error #fuckup