For the naysayers, intuition has actually been proven to exist, the more scientific term is implicit learning and tacit knowledge. In summary we actually are much more aware of our environment and lived experience when we realize. Through this unconscious awareness we can actually pick up on patterns and use this passive knowledge in our lives as intuition.

Sources:

https://cognitivepsychology.com/Implicit_Learning

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacit_knowledge

Learning about the staring experiment is rather interesting too!

As a caveat, you need to allow good information in, get offline, talk to people in real life, move your body. If you’re implicitly learning garbage, your intuition will be garbage.

Why are so many people taking a shitpost so seriously, some of ya’ll have watched wayyyyy too much Woke Veggie Tales

I laughed way too hard at this

The Buddy Nutty Cave 😏

I’m asking for specifics, benchmarks, analysis, and data. Your responses are not that. I’ll look on my own I guess.

Man I got a beef with you and I’m totally about to day it

I feel like this is following the letter of harm reduction and not the spirit of harm reduction…

This isn’t what I was asking for, I’d like to see something like, “When tasked with X AI did Y” with breakdowns between simple bug fixes to standing up a monolith in a legacy environment.

Haha I feel the long winded observation, I get it. I’m open to being wrong about AI, but you missed the main point of my argument

I don’t think the AI bubble will be around long enough for them to solve these shortcomings or the issues of expanding scope and scale leading to hallucinations.

Right now AI simply can’t (or at least last time I checked because you’re correct the technology moves very fast) do the things I mentioned.

These things, in my mind, are the gatekeepers for profitability if AI can figure these and any other issues and turn a profit before the bubble bursts, then yes we’d have an AI future. If we really get down to brass tacks (and now that I’m really thinking about it) that is the objective issue with AI, it isn’t profitable yet, it doesn’t matter if it can code a simulation of every life form on this planet if it isn’t making money. If it can solve this problem however, then yes I’d agree, everyone saying “AI can’t…” with eat their words seasoned with a little salt.

To address your accusation of cherry picking articles and advice for keeping in touch, I was kind of forced to cherry pick while attempting to keep in touch? When I was researching modern developments in AI all I was fed was an excessive amount of marketing material (this is a red flag for obvious reasons), I had to intentionally break good faith and search for things like “The issues with claude code” to get something written by a person who did not have a conflict of interest when it came to reviewing AI

I’d love to see examples of AI proving the naysayers wrong, but I was either seeing nothing but hype or enough evidence to remain skeptical of the technology.

What I’m trying to say is that I’ve tried to follow AI, I’ve tried to be impartial, but combined with what I am seeing, what I experienced as a software developer, and the economic side of AI, I don’t see any sort of AI revolution akin to the printing press or the internet. Just another race to wealth fueled by hype and some very impressive math.

I do think that outside of coding AI has some really great promises, like being able to design an Excel spreadsheet in plain English is amazing for anyone afraid of Excel, so microsoft copilot has my respect within the M365 suite, granted I don’t know what the Excel wizards have to say about the matter, but I think your average 9 to 5 desk worker whose experience with Excel revolved around accidentally opening it once would love copilot.

Oh I see what you mean now, I was missing some important context and just concluded the age gap was the issue.

Could you give some examples of AI handling complexity? From what I’ve read from senior developers is that the more scope AI has to chew on the more mistakes it makes. In terms of complexity I’m not talking about algorithms, differential calculus, or mind breaking recursion. I’m talking about the usual hodgepodge of monolithic microservices too many “Were a tech company that does X” companies have built over the past decade that are layered on top of software built before I was born.

Maybe I’m just creating too complex and specific use case, but my time as a software developer had me working through problems like that.

I just finished listening, I cried, I feel hugged, thank you again.

Thank you so much, I’ll give this song a listen and (as silly as it is) like to pretend the moon is my mom so the lyrics should be fine.

After posting this I did start feeling much better.

One flaw in capitalism that I often think about is its inevitable that the ones who hold the most valuable resource writes the rules of capitalism. Even when well regulated, even if we get rid of lobbying, even if we get reverse Citizens United, whoever holds the most desirable thing holds influence, and influence is destined to become corrupted in a system that divides people into winners and losers via competition.

I think economies at a bare minimum should be optional to engage with for luxuries only and that we as a species should learn to value more meaningful things other than pretty metals and hollow social praise from strangers.

Honestly I think capitalism was born of the mental immaturity of our species. It sounds great if you don’t know much about the world, but the more you do the less capitalism makes sense.

I can’t remember where I heard this or of it is true, but apparently it would have cost significantly more money to deceive the public with a fake moon landing than it would have been to fund the mission. When I think about the effort they would have put behind this ruse it makes sense as I’m sure the media was all over the event and the fakery wouldn’t have been isolated to a single broadcast.

One of my favorite quotes is “The only way three people can keep a secret is if two of them are dead”, from some random western movie, but yes people love to blab.

I think my sarcasm was entirely missed? Or are you continuing the banter? I don’t spend enough time online, I feel like a grandma.

I appreciate you skipping over the obvious. The thing that really breaks my brain is on one hand I do have a history of depression and that can’t be ruled out, and I know we aren’t as unique as we think we are (hence my multiple attempts at getting out there), but like I just finished watching a show for a friend, I brought it up hoping we’d each talk about or favorite moments, how the show made us feel, you know bonding? Instead she just says “Oh that’s nice I knew you’d like it” (maybe I could have asked her what she liked about the show). I asked another friend to set aside some time to talk about some pretty serious topics in my life and he totally flaked.

Like these examples, and many more, can’t just be me being depressed right? Like two of my favorite movies are KPOP Demon Hunters and Midsommar, and both of these interests have gotten me quite some odd looks, and hey I get it, I know its weird to love a kids movie and a (beautifully) disturbing horror movie, but the lack of social validation I get for being genuine hurts.

Exactly, the system we live in undermines communities, this is just another example.

What is your further? 60 year old men dating 18 year olds is creepy, don’t get me wrong, but if the 18 year old is consenting and content in the relationship (and wasn’t groomed!) where is the problem? I was being snarky before but now I’m genuinely curious.