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4mo ago

What subtle (or unsubtle) personality changes have you noticed in people who frequently use AI as a tool?
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Basic Glitch @sh.itjust.works 4mo ago
I feel like it's fine(ish) for work, and I agree, as long as you can show some evidence it's either easing your work flow vs causing you more issues, it's serving it's purpose.
My concern is people who seem to get hooked on it like a drug, and refuse to acknowledge any evidence it's causing more issues than actually helping them. Like they get really anxious/can't function without it, and start trusting AI more than they trust their own ability to reason through a problem.
It's especially concerning to me when people use it like this outside of work, like a life guide. It's almost like the AI starts doing the living for them.
For example, when it comes to navigating relationships, AI can give some really bad advice because it's lacking human connection and feeling/intuition. Those are pretty essential ingredients for decision making. If you decide to always default to AI to help you make decisions or solve problems, you're forgoing the entire experience of having a human relationship.
That connection and the way you feel are kind of the whole point. Human relationships aren't easy, sometimes they hurt, and people usually don't respond well to only being acknowledged when the other person feels like interacting with them. But feelings and being able to understand the other person's perspective even if you don't agree with them, are kind of the entire experience of being human. Without that experience you might as well just not have human relationships, and some people seem to be ok making that sacrifice.

4mo ago

What subtle (or unsubtle) personality changes have you noticed in people who frequently use AI as a tool?

I've definitely noticed an increase in previously rational people now getting offended/defensive if you disagree with them. Then just refusing to have a conversation.

That's always kind of been a universal human flaw, but it seems like AI has turned up the volume. It also seems like that kind of behavior usually was reserved for political disagreements. People avoid talking about politics bc people tend to have a sort of tribalistic/in-group vs out-group response.

Now it's like the in-group is just one person and their self affirming mirror. Wtf can you even talk about with somebody who believes the all knowing mirror they carry around in their pocket could never steer them wrong?

4mo ago

What subtle (or unsubtle) personality changes have you noticed in people who frequently use AI as a tool?

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Basic Glitch @sh.itjust.works 4mo ago

It definitely seems like it's making people less open to the possibility their opinion is incorrect.

Not that people haven't always had a difficult time being wrong, but now AI can cite "research" to answer a question by summarizing information in a way the user wants to hear.

So if somebody is normally very rational, but starts relying on AI to summarize information and research for them to save time, the summary generated might be phrased in a way that ultimately misinterprets the information it's using in an attempt to make the summary more appealing to the user.

So somebody might believe based on the summary's misinterpretation of information that an opinion seems to be backed up by AI, and this is irrefutable evidence they're correct.

4mo ago

Hantavirus Response Shows How Trump Cuts Have Compromised U.S. Preparedness

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Basic Glitch @sh.itjust.works 4mo ago

An entire country is stuck in an abusive relationship with an authoritarian psycho who is relying on weaponized incompetence to help him strategically draw out his grip on power for as long as possible.

That feeling of dread any time there's even the remote possibility of disease outbreak bc you 100% know he would view "failing" to prevent another pandemic as a golden opportunity allowing him to make more money while further tightening his grip, even if he "accidentally" ends up killing everybody in the process.

4mo ago

Recall petition filed against Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry

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Basic Glitch @sh.itjust.works 4mo ago

4mo ago

What old thing surprisingly still exists?

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Basic Glitch @sh.itjust.works 4mo ago

There's an even more fucked up joke in there somewhere about the shared bathwater still belonging to the same people

4mo ago

What old thing surprisingly still exists?

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Basic Glitch @sh.itjust.works 4mo ago

New Theory of Mind just dropped

4mo ago

I'm curious: Are all the songs in your favorite music album masterpieces? or how do you determine an album is one of your favorites?

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Basic Glitch @sh.itjust.works 4mo ago

Booker T and the M.G.'s Universal Language

The album was dedicated to M.G.'s drummer Al Jackson, Jr., who was murdered in 1975;[2] the remaining members recruited Willie Hall to replace him on this album.[3] The group would not record another album for seventeen years, returning in 1994 with That's the Way It Should Be.

There's something so deep and unique about this album. Last Tango in Memphis is my favorite track, but this is one of the few albums of any genre I enjoy just putting on and listening to all the way through.

4mo ago

Calvin Duncan cleared to take office after federal judge grants temporary restraining order

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Basic Glitch @sh.itjust.works 4mo ago

There's also a 3rd unrelated (as far as I know) Mandy Landry who's a Democrat in New Orleans. She has been pretty outspoken about Duncan being targeted by Jeff Landry. It's all very confusing.

4mo ago

Ron Wyden Is Pissing Off the NSA’s Biggest Backers. Tom Cotton Warns There Will Be “Consequences.”

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Basic Glitch @sh.itjust.works 4mo ago

It should be very concerning to hear Tom Cotton making threats like this. Especially considering he and JD Vance have both publicly supported Greater Good Constitutionalism, the legal theory created by Harvard law professor and their fellow elite "anti-elitist," Adrien Vermeule.

Vermeule argues all law, is meant to be interpreted by the highest authority. That's why executive authority "Trumps" judicial.

Most importantly, his theory explicitly states 🚨🚨 the constitution is not meant to uphold liberty, but to be interpreted by a modern authority in order to promote the greater good. 🚨🚨

In other words, a violation of your constitutional rights isn't necessarily a violation of the constitution, as long as an authority claims doing so is necessary for the greater good. Liberty is a necessary sacrifice for the "safety" of all Americans. Whatever an authority does, he's doing it for your own good whether you like it or not. If you refuse to see it that way, then you become a threat to America's safety.

So, where is the line drawn? Wherever the authority, who is guided by his own moral compass, determines it should be drawn.

If you're thinking, hey, that sounds an awful lot like the slippery slope that helped create Nazi Germany, it's because it's the same slippery slope rebranded for modern day America.

Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt, often referred to as the "legal architect" of Nazi Germany, is one of Vermeule's greatest inspirations.

•Our Schmittian Administrative Law

•Demystifying Schmitt

•Führerprinzip (leader principal) gave Hitler totalitarian power over the ideology and policies of his political party; this form of personal dictatorship was a basic characteristic of Nazism. The state itself received "political authority" from Hitler, and the Führerprinzip stipulated that only what the Führer "commands, allows, or does not allow is our conscience," with party leaders pledging "eternal allegiance to Adolf Hitler."... Beginning in 1934, the German armed forces swore a "Führer Oath" to Hitler personally, not the German constitution.

•Trump says ‘own morality’ is only limit on his power: ‘I don’t need international law’

4mo ago

What is your favorite smell?

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Basic Glitch @sh.itjust.works 4mo ago

I went on a road trip through the mountains in central Colorado during the summer ~7ish years ago. I still don't know what the smell actually was but every once in a while we would drive through certain parts of the mountains that had slightly sweet and clean/crisp smelling air. Never forgotten it.

The closest I can think to describe it would be something floral like freesia+ a woodsy Sequoia/evergreen combination.

4mo ago

Republican Gov Will Cancel Votes in Insane Racial Power Grab

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Basic Glitch @sh.itjust.works 4mo ago

This guy has strategically changed the law in Louisiana, starting over a decade ago when he was AG. Republicans in the Louisiana House and Senate introduce and pass laws at his behest that have allowed him pretty much unchecked power.

One of the first things he did when he took office was fire a tenured law professor bc he made fun of him in one of his law classes.

Once he was accused of an ethics violation, so he just completely changed the laws about who sat on the state ethics board and term limits, and then restaffed the board so it was composed of his own friends. Surprisingly the board looked into it and determined there was no ethics violation.

4mo ago

Louisiana governor prepares to suspend House primaries after court ruling

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Basic Glitch @sh.itjust.works 4mo ago

What’s amazing to me is how fast they blocked the elections because the maps were found “illegal”.

Almost like it was timed pretty perfectly.

Landry has strategically set himself up to have way too much power, and basically destroyed any checks and balances within the state of Louisiana.

On the one hand, it is a blatantly antidemocratic move to do something like this so close to the election, especially with early voting starting . On the other, nobody (with the exception of the federal government, and let's face it, we know what side they're on with Trump in the White House) can stop the kingfish from doing what he wants to do in his own pond.

Doing this so close to the election means that the burden of the ticking clock is actually placed on anybody figuring out how to challenge him. And even if they somehow do successfully figure out how to stop him from cancelling the elections the day of (May 16th), undoubtedly he will have already done some significant damage either by interfering with early voting or just spreading misinformation.

This is just the most egregious thing he's done so far to blatantly interfere with elections and democracy. Louisiana just removed an existing elected position within New Orleans at Landry's behest, after the candidate was sworn in to office. Before doing that it was a statewide voter purge from the ballots, and willingly agreeing to hand over voter registration data to the DOJ.

4mo ago

Louisiana governor prepares to suspend House primaries after court ruling

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Basic Glitch @sh.itjust.works 4mo ago

Landry has a real knack for making the most unbelievable anti-democratic bullshit happen overnight. People always talk about how incredibly dumb he is in person, but look at the very scary bullshit he has accomplished. I don't mean that as a compliment. I mean that he either wants to be underestimated (like Stalin), or he has somebody with a lot of strategic capability so far up his ass, you can't even see them basically wearing him like an Edgar suit.

The strategy that has gone into all of this should be very unnerving. Over and over again, we see Landry test something out in Louisiana only to then watch the Trump administration unleash the exact same strategy at a federal level. A lot of this has been shit Landry started to set up almost a decade ago when he was still AG, and it's fallen into place like a row of dominos.

I have very little hope of actually stopping Landry from cancelling Louisiana elections. I hope I'm wrong, but regardless, America should be watching this very closely to preempt the strategy Trump will be using to completely cancel the midterms.

5mo ago

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Basic Glitch @sh.itjust.works 5mo ago

I am not totally opposed to AI. I think it has its uses.

However, AI generated art and especially music is not my thing. I kinda see how even that can have its uses but in general, there's just something so hollow and ick about it when it's meant to be the primary form of communication.

For example, if somebody used AI generated art on a slide in a presentation they were giving to help with audience communication, I would consider that like using clipart. Nobody's going to judge you too hard for not creating your own art on every slide, but nobody's going to be overly impressed with you using it either. It serves its purpose and nobody really thinks twice about it.

When corporations (who could easily afford to hire artists to generate much better art) use it to cut corners, maximize profit and sell a product, that deserves pretty harsh judgement imo and usually signals that's a product/business I want to avoid.

When people use AI to make music as a joke, I don't really care. When people use AI to make music and pretend they're creating art it kind of makes me sick.

Listening to it feels so hollow and emotionless and I know people who rely on AI to generate that music for them, usually think it sounds great. To me it always gives me the same vibes as listening to that version of All I want for Christmas where it's Maria Carey's vocals played back through a midi.

It's funny and it serves a purpose for that reason, but it's truly uncomfortable to listen to it, and I definitely would never willingly listen to it in an attempt to enjoy music.

And tbh it's pretty scary to watch people who develop a dependence on AI really have their creativity and talent sucked away so quickly. Hoping my own experience seeing it happen isn't generalizable to the rest of humanity but it's been like watching somebody become a pod person and a shadow of who they used to be.

I think it really comes down to asking yourself why do you enjoy music or art? Either creating it or listening/viewing something created by somebody else. Why does it exist in the first place?

Is it to serve a purpose and communicate messages for things like factual information and products? Or is it supposed to make you feel something?

I guess that's a big part of it for me. I associate the uncomfortable feeling I get from AI music and art with an emptiness. Like if I was really sad, and I tried to listen to music I enjoy but found myself feeling the way I do when I listen to AI, I would worry I'm developing clinical depression.

Like AI generated art and music has figured out how to capture the feeling of a neurochemical imbalance in a bottle, and tried to gift it to the world.

5mo ago

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Basic Glitch @sh.itjust.works 5mo ago

I remember being ~17 and talking to a friend of mine about how we both agreed neither one of us would probably reach 25. Luckily we were wrong, but a lot of the people we grew up with unfortunately did end up dying really young.

The only other part Incan remember was her bringing up this one friend of ours in particular she also thought would die young, but only because he was too ridiculous for her to picture as an old man. He was still alive the last time I checked, but I remember her saying she predicted it would be some bizarre way that would end up in the news like 'man bites carrot, carrot bites back.'

5mo ago

Meet the Four Democrats Who’ll Decide If Trump Gets His Domestic Spying Law

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Basic Glitch @sh.itjust.works 5mo ago

I don't think all Democrats have been purchased by conservatives to prevent any progress from happening, but obviously some have. Because you don't need all of them, you only need just enough to give the right wing fascist shit like this one or two extra Dems to get it to pass.

The blue dog caucus or whatever it's called is fucking packed with dems who seem to exist only to fuck over the democratic party

5mo ago

Trump Erupts in ‘60 Minutes’ Interview: ‘I’m Not a Pedophile’

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Basic Glitch @sh.itjust.works 5mo ago

The lady doth protest too much. Because he's hoping to distract from the fact that he's a pedophile.

5mo ago

Trump’s purge of National Science Board condemned as a ‘real bozo the clown move’

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Basic Glitch @sh.itjust.works 5mo ago

“This is the latest stupid move made by a president who continues to harm science and American innovation,”

5mo ago

Trump Fired The Entire National Science Board. Here's Why That Matters

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Basic Glitch @sh.itjust.works 5mo ago

On May 5, the National Science Board is scheduled to meet. There is no agenda, and at the moment, no board. That absence is the thing worth attending to, beyond the news of any particular firing. The question is not who sits on the board. The question is whether the kind of board the 1950 Act envisioned still exists in practice, and what American science looks like if it does not.

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