You know how hard it is to make me not care about some tech thing, let alone make me feel actively negatively towards it?
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You know how hard it is to make me not care about some tech thing, let alone make me feel actively negatively towards it? I'm a perpetual early adopter, run betas all over the place, self-host — hell, when I was a kid, I snuck into conferences just to get the software the handed out as swag (this is how I used Outlook as an e-mail client as a kid)!
I downloaded alpha-quality NVIDIA drivers to try and play with style transfer toys and Deep Dream. Let me say that again: I willingly and *on purpose* ran *alpha-quality* *NVIDIA drivers* so I could play with something that is an immediate precursor to modern genAI products.
I am the ideal target audience for AI products.
And yet, based on knowing even a little bit about what they are, I fucking *loathe* them.
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I downloaded alpha-quality NVIDIA drivers to try and play with style transfer toys and Deep Dream. Let me say that again: I willingly and *on purpose* ran *alpha-quality* *NVIDIA drivers* so I could play with something that is an immediate precursor to modern genAI products.
I am the ideal target audience for AI products.
And yet, based on knowing even a little bit about what they are, I fucking *loathe* them.
@xgranade I don't like it either, I saw someone else on here (can't find it anymore, sorry) say that it's because it turns computers from the deterministic machines we love back into the nondeterministic things we dislike
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I downloaded alpha-quality NVIDIA drivers to try and play with style transfer toys and Deep Dream. Let me say that again: I willingly and *on purpose* ran *alpha-quality* *NVIDIA drivers* so I could play with something that is an immediate precursor to modern genAI products.
I am the ideal target audience for AI products.
And yet, based on knowing even a little bit about what they are, I fucking *loathe* them.
I don't know. Maybe I've gotten jaded in my middle age. Maybe I've gotten disillusioned in general. Maybe seeing cryptocurrency, web3, and NFTs hit in rapid succession broke something in my techno-optimist personality.
But also, this is just that fucking bad. I've come around to Luddism as a principled and reasoned stance, even when I'm the kind of insufferable nerd who goes to sleep reading RFCs and wondering when I'll get to play with this or that new thing.
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I don't know. Maybe I've gotten jaded in my middle age. Maybe I've gotten disillusioned in general. Maybe seeing cryptocurrency, web3, and NFTs hit in rapid succession broke something in my techno-optimist personality.
But also, this is just that fucking bad. I've come around to Luddism as a principled and reasoned stance, even when I'm the kind of insufferable nerd who goes to sleep reading RFCs and wondering when I'll get to play with this or that new thing.
(I say "snuck" for the sake of humor, but really I guilt-tripped organizers into giving a homeschooled high school student free admission. Still, it worked, and I got a lot of enterprise-grade shit for free. But no crimes were involved.)
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I don't know. Maybe I've gotten jaded in my middle age. Maybe I've gotten disillusioned in general. Maybe seeing cryptocurrency, web3, and NFTs hit in rapid succession broke something in my techno-optimist personality.
But also, this is just that fucking bad. I've come around to Luddism as a principled and reasoned stance, even when I'm the kind of insufferable nerd who goes to sleep reading RFCs and wondering when I'll get to play with this or that new thing.
@xgranade Yeah, this exact stance makes me crazy sometimes like I don't even understand myself and I'm going through an identity crisis.
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(I say "snuck" for the sake of humor, but really I guilt-tripped organizers into giving a homeschooled high school student free admission. Still, it worked, and I got a lot of enterprise-grade shit for free. But no crimes were involved.)
@xgranade@wandering.shop it's not too late. we can still do crimes, together.
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@xgranade@wandering.shop it's not too late. we can still do crimes, together.
@aud Crimes, like surviving.
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@aud Crimes, like surviving.
@xgranade@wandering.shop "be gay, is a crime"
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I don't know. Maybe I've gotten jaded in my middle age. Maybe I've gotten disillusioned in general. Maybe seeing cryptocurrency, web3, and NFTs hit in rapid succession broke something in my techno-optimist personality.
But also, this is just that fucking bad. I've come around to Luddism as a principled and reasoned stance, even when I'm the kind of insufferable nerd who goes to sleep reading RFCs and wondering when I'll get to play with this or that new thing.
@xgranade I like to think of it less as something broken, and more of a lesson learned. Cryptocurrency and LLMs disgust me not because of the technology itself (I think it’s actually pretty interesting), but because I have my eyes open to the context surrounding it. I understand now what power looks like and who it affects. If I’m grumpier in my middle age, that’s why.
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@xgranade@wandering.shop "be gay, is a crime"
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