jackdoe

> Social media is a HUGE shift to society

Our teens are living through a changing time: peak unregulated social media, that I personally belive is approaching heroin level addiction and damage; covid lockdowns testing the very limits of Piagetian theory; AI in school and outsourcing understanding; very uncertain job market to enter into; possibly the collapse of AMOC; reaching Peloponnesian war level of unstable democracy; the true collapse of idealism, the birth of the mechanical man and the first total spiritual crisis

Our institutions absolutely can not react with the accelerated change, so I think the only thing a parent can do is act as individuals, teach their children, and position their families in the best way they can to weather the storm.

AI romantic partners are coming.

I have no idea if this is AI or not. I tried reading it, and was doubting every sentence. Damn. At this point I am not sure it matters. Few years ago I would've read it with joy.

I love Tom Bombadil, Tolkien's ghost.

yes, that is my point, but at some point, better is unmeasurable, and both the better and the not-as-good produce similar result, and then you pick the one with 1/10th of the price

I think there is some threshold after which "best" model doesn't matter, we are not that far from it. Fable now is really good, in a year or so, if Kimi catches up, even if Fable6 is much better, I think I will use kimi at 1/10th of the price.

I said that about opus 4.5 at the time, thinking "this is so good, in 6-12 months the Chinese models will be as good and cheap, I will use them", but I was wrong.. I pay premium for opus4.7/8 and Fable.

But at some point, it will just do the thing you want it to do, and then the race to the bottom will start.

Now that Chinese companies have access to some very good Fable tokens, I hope it speeds up the race.

denying smartphone basically makes your kid an outcast, which might be fine for some kids, not fine for others, but ignoring that, the school basically requires smartphones, even uses apps to open the lockers, or to communicate about group projects.

apple's parental controls are total joke, per app blocks are not good at all, what you want is content type blocks, which of course is impossible.

example: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254480754?sortBy=rank

I have seriously dealt with this for 30 years, from before cups existed, and as I said I have forgotten more about lpd and cups than most people know.

You have no idea how much I don't want to understand.

I am not being witty for comedic effect.

I have forgotten more ways to fix CUPS than most people know today.

I really don't care.

I wish it had more sense of humor and would print 'I am trapped inside your printer' or something :)

I did not know where it printed it from, but after that I printed from chrome without issue.

I will never know.

I have had many, but the last one was quite funny:

It fixed my printer after dist-upgrade and separate chrome upgrade, the printer worked everywhere but not in chrome.

After 30 years of using linux I didn't even want to know what is wrong, is it colord again? dbus + cups issue? I completely accepted that I wont be able to print from chrome for a couple of months until next update.

I just ran it in dangerously-skip-permissions mode and said 'my printer doesnt work in chrome' few minutes later I heard the printer printing "This is test" and it said 'I think its fixed, do you see a page coming out of the printer now?'

Things are so much worse than you think.

Many real people talk like AI now.

I notice it more and more every day.

Sometimes I can notice it in my speech pattern as well. And worse of all, my thinking. It is like I am reading the same book over and over again.

Now I actually have old sci-fi (mona lisa) between me and the keyboard, while claude is writing, I am reading. And I avoid reading its output as much as I can.

Get the last ounce of milk from the dying cow.

The well is beyond poisoned. Almost anything I search for is returning AI generated vomit. I have not used google in weeks.

On youtube I use Unhook and only look at /feed/subscriptions, when I search I use before:2022. And am actually downloading what I find interesting, before google starts deleting because of the flood of vomit. Hard disks can not be manufactured fast enough to consume it.

Even HN is slowly becoming unreadable.

The internet is on borrowed time.

Show me more ads.

Its time to move on.

Try new things, make your own networks. Write your ipv6 address in the pub, under the table, in the top left corner, write it on the subway walls, and tenement halls.

Listen on tcp port 1492 and explain how to talk to you.

in contrast with:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kids_Aren%27t_Alright

relax man, just go and touch some grass, there is no 'we', do what you wanna do, go where you wanna go.

also, block the internet for a while, buy a commodore and code some machine code, make a forth, you will be alright.

read `the soul of a new machine`.

the world is in the middle of a storm right now, you cant do much, but weather through it.

Policy makers use AI to write policies, business owners use AI to comply with said policies.

Large companies can navigate the waters with teams of lawyers and accountants.

I don't think it will be possible to run a small business without AI in the near future, as the complexity of the law will increase beyond any comprehension.

> Hacker News goes away, too.

so be it.

first slowly, then all at once.

"His ugliness was the stuff of legend. In an age of affordable beauty, there was something heraldic about his lack of it."

-- William Gibson, Neuromancer

I just love opening a page, and it is not vomited with claude's aesthetics.

Looking at the transformer as a homoiconic machine makes reading and writing tokens much easier.

In the same time, I can feel how it is affecting my thinking.

If only Hermes Trismegistus could see. What has he become.

> Most of Europe has this problem solved.

With paracetamol :)

(Dutch people know what I am talking about)

I am running a bunch of autoresearch loops that optimize various compilers and its pretty easy to burn through as much money as you want if you have a measurable goal and good tests.

> The problem with this is now you are solely responsible for managing all of the changes

We seem to greatly overestimate the amount of code needed to do something.

For example, there are billions of lines of code from me pressing a key, to you seeing what I wrote. But if we were to make a special program that communicates via ipv6 and icmp, and it is written for hazard3 pico2350 with wiz5500 ethernet breakout, the whole thing including the c compiler to compile your code (which could very well outperform gcc -O3) will be 5-6k lines of code, including RA, and even barebones spi drivers, and a small preemptive os.

So, it is not unreasonable to manage all of those changes.

I cant wait to have no dependencies.

An extreme example is now when I make interactive educational apps for my daughter, I just make Opus use plain js and html; from double pendulums to fluid simulations, works one shot. Before I had hundreds of dependencies.

Luckily with MIT licensed code I can just tell Opus to extract exactly the pieces I need and embed them, and tweaked for my usecase. So far works great for hobby projects, but hopefully in the future productions software will have no dependencies.

it does, but it doesnt; there is a subtle collapse i think

same, I also try not to read claude's output that much, and I have a copy of Gibson's Mona Lisa and just open it while it is thinknig, for music and even for CS stuff, I search with before:2022 on youtube

but the ship has sailed :)

there is no hiding from it

of course the content we consume modifies us, but now everybody "reads" the same book, whatever they read.

God damn metanoia.

I feel like the internet is programming me.

At this point it is impossible to tell if AI writes like people or people write like AI.

I will pay anything to watch styropyro!

rage against the dying of the light