The usage of the phrase has evolved past carrying about the actual generation (kind of like how people still talk about "millennials" like they're college students).

Also, Hoffman very intentionally opened the door to talking about generational differences, this kind of feels like the commenter may have touched a nerve

Imposing AI on the young when you no longer stand to experience the negative consequences because of your age is its own form of ageism.

> Also: ageism isn't sexy

Biology is ageist. The youngest baby boomers are still in their early 60s, and not yet subject to a precipitous-decline cut-off, but the median Boomer is about 71 and probably past it [1].

Given every President since 1993—with the exception of Obama—was born in 1942 or 1946 [2], I think it’s fair to admit this whole an-eighty-year-old-is-the-same-as-a-thirty-year-old tripe has swung to an untenable extreme.

Race is a social construct. Age is not. Mixing them up is fundamentally wrong and, I’d argue, dangerous.

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4906299/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_the_Unit...

It’s not ageism. Don’t be so sensitive.

I'm old too, it isn't about that. He's desperately trying to guilt young people into glomming onto his profoundly uncool thing by playing on some ancient "digital native" trope. It's, well, some boomer type shit.

> Also: ageism isn't sexy.

Typical boomer needing things to be based on sex all the time.