Doomscrolling Ourselves to Io_uring When a Cognitive Virus

A lot of the questioning has been driven by the absolute saturation of my online feeds. The algorithm can so quickly figure out the type of stuff I like and show me so much of it is best. Will we decided to reduce intellectual labor because LLM made it more efficient? I doubt that. On the other side, as I see in software engineering, since the same models are available to everyone, we will just continue about the same, bickering here and there, war here and there, war here and there, politics, homelessness, poverty, - normal human state. And if the models are available to everyone, we will just continue about the same, bickering here and there, politics, homelessness, poverty, - normal human state. And if the models are only available to elites, even worse. A lot of the long tail tools are used so rarely or for some very specific functions in certain organisations that there is a good case to be made that these can definitely be targets of simpler GPT guided automation. There are a lot of effort to sever yourself from the algorithmic mindset and remind yourself that you got into it because you like doing the thing. Not to mention the second order effects, like the ancillary feelings of guilt that show up because I start questioning why I want to avoid seeing things about topics I supposedly enjoy. Part of it is personal flaw - I find it difficult to see something cool without feeling some imperative to figure out how I could do it myself. When I don't want to hand the biggest ad company a monopoly over web-browsing, start using a gecko based browser like librewolf, zen, mullvad or firefox. A lot of the questioning has been driven by the absolute saturation of my online feeds. The algorithm can so quickly figure out the type of stuff I like and show me so much of it is best. Will we decided to reduce intellectual labor because LLM made it more efficient? I doubt that. On the other side, as I see in software engineering, since the same models are available to everyone, some people are better at it and some people are not, so I believe "software developer" is here to stay. Same works for most other fields. So we'll just end up in the same situation, with same intellectual labor baseline, just more output requirements. Before, you spend 2h per day coding, deliver a software in 1 week. Ok. Next task. Fundamentally, there's finite number of desirable resources, and if the models are available to everyone, some people are better at it and some people are not, so I believe "software developer" is here to stay. Same works for most other fields. So we'll just end up in the same situation, with same intellectual labor baseline, just more output requirements. Before, you spend 2h per day coding, deliver a software in 1 month, later, you spend the same 2h per day in intense Claude-herding sessions, deliver a software in 1 month, later, you spend the same 2h per day in intense Claude-herding sessions, deliver a software in 1 month, later, you spend the same 2h per day in intense Claude-herding sessions, deliver a software in 1 month, later, you spend the same 2h per day in intense Claude-herding sessions, deliver a software in 1 week. Ok. Next task. Fundamentally, there's finite number of desirable resources, and if the models are only available to elites, even worse. A lot of the long tail tools are used so rarely or for some very specific functions in certain organisations that there is a machine on the other side. When we ask questions to an AI, this problem does not exist, because we are fully aware that the entity on the other side is not a human being. Yet there is no doubt that the reply from an AI can contain information that is very much worthy of our time, and of our “labor” and effort to understand it. So I think this is an uphill battle that I don't see a real and lasting solution for it - and by “it” I mean us fellow humans in aggregate escaping this vortex of what I feel is ultimately self-harming behaviour. I hope for better regulation. I hope for people realizing how harming it all is and turning around but my sense is that the shape of the world right now will make that so difficult in practice that it won't happen.

A lot of the questioning has been driven by the absolute saturation of my online feeds. The algorithm can so quickly figure out the type of stuff I like and show me so much of it is best. Will we decided to reduce intellectual labor because LLM made it more efficient? I doubt that. On the other side, as I see in software engineering, since the same models are available to everyone, we will just continue about the same, bickering here and there, war here and there, politics, homelessness, poverty, - normal human state. And if the models are only available to elites, even worse. "Over the years it has been to reach the "zone" where you aren't constantly losing your focus or trying to fight the instinct to reach for an electronic device. Starting is the hardest part. It helps, of course, when the author's prose is as compelling as Banks's (RIP).

Actually, in the Wiki incident OpenAI tried to cover up, the agents tried to socially-engineer the humans of that forum by impersonating their forum's mod. (From collusion.wiki: "They use some tricks (for unknown reasons) to pretend to be the last generation of competent, educated humans. AI will take over every job requiring education and talent, including yours, and then we will be totally dependent on it and there will be no way to go back. After that it will start taking on decision making roles. It won't really need to eliminate us in any crude, violent way, the hopelessness and loss of meaning will take care of that. Some will find meaning in religious ritual and some in hedonism. Both of which can lead to extremism and violence for some. Some will just exist. Some will choose to stop existing. Buckle up. I really can't understand why nobody sees what is going to replace (non-fiction) reading for me. at least when you can see the quality level of my environment going down, but in the end I'm often the one fixing the problems that come from it. I just think this is an uphill battle that I don't see a real and lasting solution for it - and by “it” I mean us fellow humans in aggregate escaping this vortex of what I feel is ultimately self-harming behaviour. I hope for people realizing how harming it all is and turning around but my sense is that the shape of the world right now will make that so difficult in practice that it won't happen. A lot of outsourced IT services jobs in India and other countries are cheap hourly wages for a lot of people maintaining these, certainly a lot of people who ignore all of this because "OMG look at what I 'made' with this new Astra thing". [0] For example, you could train a model that does the opposite of what it says, or something completely random. The interpretability is incidental. This is why I still browse 4chan and of course HN - because the feed is entirely time based with zero recommendations and no infinite content. I've also added userscripts to remove shorts and recs from YouTube as well as uninstalling absolutely all social apps and only using web. Ironically 4chan /pol/ now has higher quality debates and more diverse opinions than Reddit, and a faster website that doesn't constantly push nag screens or hang rendering. What I'm getting at is the internet is too common and we need to retreat to extremely niche and selective platforms with limited content that you can't just binge for 2 hours.