Call me paranoid, but I feel like every application I use that’s made by Google, Meta, or Microsoft has been getting worse.
Obviously I blame AI, but they aren’t just getting “trying to shove unwanted and superfluous AI features down my throat” worse. No, I mean objectively worse: slower, more bugs, missing features, clunkier UI. These companies are relying on AI more and more for development, and personally I think it’s showing.
Is anybody else seeing this, or is it just me?
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You know you’re really desperate to put something off when you spend 3 hours binge-reading the archives of your own blog.
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We’ve all heard that those who don’t study history are doomed to repeat it. But it hits a little different when it’s your entire country repeating history, including the part of history where everyone in power ignores the folks screaming “You’re repeating history, and it’s not the good kind!”
I imagine it feels a little like watching your best friend fail an open-book exam because he didn’t study and is refusing to open the book.
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Me (to 6yo): “…I said, finish cleaning your room!”
Me (to myself): “Huh, what am I holding?
“Oh, it’s lip balm. Why do I have this?
“…Oh, right. Because I got it out of my pocket. To put on my face. Ten seconds ago.”
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Everyone understands that adolescence is an awkward time.
Nobody prepares you for the awkwardness of being in your 30s, seeing a woman shopping at the grocery store with her mother and her daughter, and not being able to make up your mind about which of them is hotter.
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I live a life of intrigue and suspense, full of exciting questions like “why did I walk into this room,” “what was the reason I picked up my phone two hours ago,” and “is that yellow stain on my nails orange peel or jaundice”
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I think my favorite thing about MS Windows is when you can’t do anything with a file or folder because “it is open in another program,” but it won’t say which program.
That’s the best!
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Help, I’m Arguing With People on the Internet and I Can’t Get Up
“Views” is such a frustrating number to optimize for. What does it matter how many people see what you’ve said or done, if you don’t know how many people you’ve actually affected?
You know what a much more useful metric would be? “Number of minds changed.” That sure would be nice. It is so exhausting when someone’s wrong on the internet in a way that it feels so gosh-danged important to try to correct them, but is it really? You can sometimes tell if the person you’re arguing with changes their mind, but what about all the lurkers who never pitch in? Maybe you helped some other people’s understanding, even if you couldn’t get the OP to budge. Or maybe not! Who knows? It’s maddening!
Anyway, to completely and randomly change the subject: AI doesn’t need a personality or instincts or emotions or a desire for self-preservation or even consciousness to be superintelligent and wipe us all out; just because something has been in fiction a lot and has never happened before doesn’t mean it isn’t about to happen; and if some fatuous nimrod says a thing, that (by itself) is not evidence the thing is false. If you disagree, you are being Wrong On The Internet and if you would please just stop now it would save me a lot of aggravation. Thank you.
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