What of you’re in IT and are ready to leave but don’t like gardening or woodworking?

I still like electricity. Maybe I can be a part time electrician.

Faith No More’s cover of War Pigs is so much better than the original Black Sabbath version.

Marketing BS. The bad part is all the C-Suites falling for it.

I agree. The word “literally” was literally perfect. It was a binary descriptor. Other people’s poor vocabulary ruined it, not the people who used it correctly.

Once I found out that that the definition of literally has literally been changed to “literally, but sometimes figuratively”, I’ve switched to objectively and subjectively when describing things, which aren’t quite the same but I literally don’t have a word anymore that means literally.

So instead of literally you could use objectively. I like that no one is going to use objectively as slang because it’s kind of a clunky, obtuse word that doesn’t literally roll off the tongue.

Unfortunately we will always have problems explaining to people how to use the right tool for the right job.

The old “if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail” saying still applies.

Using LLMs to automate your social media is dumb as shit and I don’t understand why people are doing that. It is actively destroying social media. Which may be the natural end-state of a social media platform. Isn’t that why most of us are on Lemmy right now? Because of the state of Reddit and Xitter?

Also, generative AI making art and music and literature is dumb as shit too. Why would you make an AI that does the fun stuff that humans actually want to do? I can’t wait to have AI finish playing BioShock for me…

We also have “the Internet” slurping up massive amounts of energy.

Current Global Electricity Breakdown:

• Total Data Center/Infrastructure Demand: Approximately 2.0% of global electricity.
• AI-Specific Share: Roughly 0.5% of global electricity.
• “Traditional” Internet/Cloud: Roughly 1.5% of global electricity.

The Internet is also a tool that humanity uses. Should we shut that down too? (I would argue yes considering how the “Information Superhighway” somehow made the average person dumber, but that’s a different discussion.)

AI (LLMs) is/are a fantastic tool.

But that’s what it is, a tool that can make some tasks easier.

It’s not world-changing like some tech bros and CEOs think it is because they don’t actually understand the technology.

It’s also not the apocalypse or The Matrix or Skynet coming to end civilization. It’s just a tool.

After the AI bubble bursts, AI will still be there, as a tool for humans to use.

I think it’s possible that some of the people you see on Lemmy may have started using AI a little more in their lives and see it for what it is.

Why would you want bigger balls? They’re already obnoxious enough at normal size.

Terrible design. The most pain sensitive part of your body. In front. In a sack of skin. In a natural pinch-point…

“Defend”?

Haha. That’s a cute word for it.

And once weaned off of whatever the addict is addicted to, then what?

Is it OK for a crack addict to have a reasonable portion of crack? Or an alcoholic to have a reasonable portion pf alcohol? Or an ex-smoker to have a reasonable number of cigarettes?

No it’s not OK. No one would ever suggest that. And if you think that a food addict is only addicted to sodas and Ruffles, you’re mistaken and have never seen me at a sushi bar.

To come full circle, that’s what GLP-1 drugs are. A medical intervention for an addiction. Same as methadone. It’s not a coincidence that GLP-1 drugs also curb cravings for other addictive behaviors.

And that’s why the snark of the “Did you know you can just eat less to lose weight?” falls flat, because it’s completely uninformed.

Except with alcohol and benzos you don’t have to consume a perfect, healthy portion of alcohol and benzos for the rest of your life to stay alive.

You’re missing the point. No one would suggest to an alcoholic that they just get better at consuming the right portion size of alcohol, because that’s not how addiction works.

Without a doubt.

Addicted to alcohol? Stop drinking. You can’t control an addiction so you have to completely stop.

Addicted to cigarettes? Stop smoking. You can’t control an addiction so you have to completely stop.

Addicted to crack? Stop smoking crack. You can’t control an addiction so you have to completely stop.

Addicted to food? Must be your fault for being weak-willed. Just don’t consume so much of that thing that you’re addicted to. You can control your addiction. Just stop being a loser…

The literal solution to every addiction is stop it, cold turkey. One Day At A Time. But you can’t stop eating food.

Just eat less? Golly, why didn’t I think of that? So simple!

I had to look up the black-footed cat.

What a beast.

So I’ve been utilizing the big LLMs to help increase my productivity at work. And I have to say, yes, it absolutely makes me more productive.

However, I can only be more productive because I already have 25 years of experience in my field and I am already a senior and I can guide the “AI” to what I really need help with and I can see the mistakes it makes.

There is absolutely no way someone who hasn’t already been doing this job for 25 years would be able to just sit down with an AI assistant and replace me.

And my company has not hired any associate level employees who could replace me. All my peers are 5-7 years away from retirement. I’m 11 years away from retirement.

I’ve actually done the “Captain Caaaavemaaaaaan!!!” yell around people in my age group and just got blank stares.

The Mister T cartoon. I can still hear the intro song in my head 44 years later.

Mister T (TV Series)

Holy crap is this serious?

Oreos dunked in milk just long enough until they’ve absorbed some milk is a God-Tier snack.

My kids saw a “life-hack” video where you use a fork and squeeze for tines of the fork into the Oreo stuffing so you can dunk the Oreo without getting your fingers in the milk so now not only do we dunk Oreos but we completely submerge them.