I wonder how much of this is informed opinion vs. reflexive kickback due to a threat to ones livelihood.

The issue is the gap between hype and reality.

Like yeah - I wanna see this agi bull shit happen to just to see what happens to society etc but it’s not happening anytime soon.

So all this constant pumping is annoying AF, cult-like and delululand shit

Why would I give a shit about this person's personal conversations being boring? Make new friends, idk. I don't talk about AI outside of technical forums where it's relevant or maybe work.

> Just stop wanging on about it like you discovered the secret to eternal life.

I mean, I'm going to talk about whatever the fuck I want to talk about so long as I'm in the relevant forum for that topic.

> If you want to enhance your consciousness / rot your brain with AI - go ahead.

I agree, if we don't use it carefully, we won't be able to think confidentially. Obviously, there's no way around using it as a tool, but I think it will be a long-term loss of clear thinking if we stop learning or brainstorming ourselves. Similar to what Paul said: "The result will be a world divided into write-ers and write-nots. There will still be some people who can write."

Time will tell. I wrote more at 'Will AI Replace Human Thinking' [1].

[1] https://www.ssp.sh/brain/will-ai-replace-humans

It does feel like there are a lot of parallels between usage of AI and psychedelic experiences:

- novices love to talk about the act itself

- mostly inscrutable, and the artifacts of the experience are not fully understood by the beholder

- pumped by a similar new age tech crowd of optimaxxers who haven’t realized that this mode of thinking alone is not all you need

slow and careful reflection has never been more important.

Personally I love people being excited about tech, and people who were really limited in what they could do being able to do really cool things with AI and doing all kinds of weird things with it. I find the attitude in the article really unappealing, they want to poo poo on peoples excitement over what they can do now. Try and make out its all "boring" etc, but its the cusp of quite a big change in how we interact with computers and the thing we need the most right now is people who are imagining what we can do with it. Feel free to go back to your smoking or whatever, find other grumpy cynics to complain about everything and anything while pretending you are somehow having a better conversation.

Could not agree more with this. AI bubble needs to burst. Since AI I hate this industry more and more with every day.You can't buy PC for normal price anymore, because AI bubble bought everything. I did not wanted any kind of AI in my OS/website/whatever software.

But searching for job literally made me asking myself what I am even doing with my life.

Here is quote of e-mail, I got from one of HR recruiters:

```Good morning. In connection with your application for an IT Administrator position, we kindly ask you to answer the following questions. Please respond within 5 days.

Name and surname:

1. What AI models or tools do you actively use? 2. What has changed in your approach to work with AI? 3. Have you built or configured any tools using AI? If so, which ones? 4. What is your main area of interest in AI?```

I feel like I don't fit into this industry anymore.

One way to understand this: You're bored of the most transformative technology of the last 25 years?