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  • petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoTechnology@lemmy.world•Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusionEnglish
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    3 days ago

    No, I think they disagree. Or at least, I don’t mind treating them as such.

    From sudoer:

    Basically what they are saying is just praying > praying + smoking > just smoking.

    This is the basis of the entire argument. What I see them doing is hyperfixating on an alleged flaw as a rhetorical tactic to defeat you.

    I want to be clear: the point being made by the A and B versions of the smoker’s question is… obvious. It’s framing. Framing is a very well understood concept.

    When I challenge people on grounds like these, I appear friendly, I make it explicitly known that I agree with the broader point, I offer alternatives that would make the point better, I refrain from damaging the rhetorical momentum (that is, we shouldn’t be bickering with each other because, to an audience, we should be a united front), and, I dunno, a fifth thing I’m sure I’ll come up with later.

    If sudoer doesn’t disagree with you, they are still acting in opposition to you, which is 1) inconsiderate, and 2) demonstrates very poor social skills.

  • petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Have you ever thought about deleting your account?
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    6 days ago

    I’m just asking out of curiosity: why do you think you care so much about the negative comments?

    I am one of those people that shrug it off, and if I were to try to rationalize my emotional armor, I’d say that the places these matters of taste and disagreement come from, like psychologically, are often not you’re own fault and wouldn’t really be fixable even if you tried.

    But, I wonder if that might be missing the mark. The futility of trying to appease people who are unappeasable might actually have nothing to do with it.

  • petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•shut uppp
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    18 days ago

    So there is a huge gap of perception of IA and LLM betweet tech people and other people.

    You are correct that there are reasons tech people are more inclined to like these things, but it’s not really because AI is useful to them.

    Actually, here’s a good video about its usefulness.

    I think the reason tech people are so bought into it is a combination of

    • their careers depending on them liking the new tech thing,
    • a general sci-fi inspired enthusiasm for what can be accomplished,
    • a dash of everyone in this industry being an introvert with no friends,
    • and the misconception that, because they can engineer something, they are smarter than the people around them.

    That last bullet, I don’t know if you remember the contemptuous rivalry between stem majors and the arts or humanities, any major that was less “useful”—that’s the exact smug attitude I’m talking about. There are a lot of people who think they could just program away life’s many problems.