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Starlevel004yesterday at 5:35 PM3 repliesview on HN

I laugh every time somebody qualifies their anti-AI comments with "Actually I really like AI, I use it for everything else". The problem is bad, but the cause of the problem (and especially paying for the cause of the problem)? That's good!


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Kerrickyesterday at 5:41 PM

I laugh every time somebody thinks every problem must have a root cause that pollutes every non-problem it touches.

It's a problem to use a blender to polish your jewelry. However, it's perfectly alright to use a blender to make a smoothie. It's not cognitive dissonance to write a blog post imploring people to stop polishing jewelry using a blender while also making a daily smoothie using the same tool.

4b11b4yesterday at 6:47 PM

It's not as one-dimensional as good vs bad. Transformers generally are extremely useful. Do I want to read your transformer generated writing? Fuck no. Is code generation/understanding/natural language interfaces to a computer good? I'd have to argue yes, certainly.

I cry every time somebody tries to frame it one dimensionally.

the_afyesterday at 6:01 PM

Why laugh? Why can't a tool have good and bad uses, and why can't one be disappointed about the bad uses but embrace the good ones?