There's a lot of things humans would have been better off without, technologically.

24/7 News Cycle. 24/7 Social Media. Social Media in general. Smartphones.

You don’t say.

It should be an "opt in" thing, but as someone with at least half a brain; I find myself spending waaay too much time "opting out" or "entirely avoiding that pile of shit like a cow turd in a field full of landmines".

AI ain't got shit on me. I'm Kong Kong and I'll eat your children, bitch.

For one thing, get it working before building thousands of data centers and turning the not even half-baked algorithms loose on the world. AI doesn't have to equal trillions in investment and so much resource consumption.

"look at me and the scary beast I brought to life! Look at me!" No Geoffrey, the scary beasts are Sam Altman and his ilk, who would have used anything to hype the fading tech industry up. LLMs were just the thing that happened to be that "anything".

"might"

hasnt he read dune?

WHAT?! Wow, how did he possibly come to that conclusion? /s

Deny excrement, Holmes?

Some are better off, some not. 🤓

6 | 6/12

Ya think?

It might turn out we were better off without electricity, but we'll never know because we have electricity.