alt Hacker NewsHow is that any different than Hallmark? Humanity has outsourced this for a long time. Low-effort gifts, regifted gifts, bad white elephant gifts, etc. etc.
There's nothing stopping you from appreciating heartfelt effort. That is still possible today.
To be clear, I don't like automated low effort stuff like this. But I hate the internet's psychosis-like reaction to AI more.
It's become a vile performative meme to state how much you hate AI. The tone is always one of bravery and sacrifice mixed with disgust.
You know how you can tell someone hates AI? They'll tell you fifty times. It's becoming a personality type.
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If you send me a Hallmark card, you don't take the time to compose it yourself, but you presumably don't just pick one at random. You read it, to decide if you like the tone and sentiment. You may read several before you pick one. That is, it still takes your time even if the words aren't yours.
Hallmark didn't destroy the affordability of the personal computing market.
you can just disagree with reasons rather than this performative rhetoric. your post makes me realise i was wrong to tease people about rust the other day -- apologies for that.
edit: changed "ad hominem" to "performative rhetoric", think its more fitting in this case but it all seems borderline
> I hate the internet's psychosis-like reaction to AI more. The tone is always one of bravery and sacrifice mixed with disgust. You know how you can tell someone hates AI? They'll tell you fifty times. It's becoming a personality type.
Tell me again about performative rage.
> You know how you can tell someone hates AI? They'll tell you fifty times. It's becoming a personality type.
This is so fucking funny man: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Everything mentioned in the first paragraph as arguments still takes some personal time and effort. The amount of time that’s involved to receive and acknowledge the gift is smaller than the amount of time to prepare the gift. So it feels “right”.
Not sure if I’m making sense, but that’s how I’d feel about it.