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  • o7___o7@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th June 2025English
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    13 hours ago

    hacker news is illiterate

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44245053

    I question whether or not some of these commenters have a theory of mind. The product under discussion is a horror show of reified solipsism. For the commenters, books are merely the written form of the mouth noises they use to get other meat robots to do things and which are sometimes entertaining when piled up in certain ways.

    “Words or bodies?” you might ask. Yes.

    PS: channeling the spiritu drilum

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44246874

    You cannot stop people from making the world worse or better. The best you can do is focus on your own life.

    In time many will say we are lucky to live in a world with so much content, where anything you want to see or read can be spun up in an instant, without labor.

    And though most will no longer make a living doing some of these content creation activities by hand and brain, you can still rejoice knowing that those who do it anyway are doing it purely for their love of the art, not for any kind of money. A human who writes or produces art for monetary reasons is only just as bad as AI.

  • o7___o7@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•Generative AI runs on gambling addiction — just one more prompt, bro!English
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    7 days ago

    In my experience, stimulants mean more self-control!

    ADHD is a broad church, but most of us generally show reduced dopaminergic activity around the frontal lobe, which can manifest, as an example, executive dysfunction. The right stimulant medication at the proper dosage helps balance that out. My unmedicated brother can drink a latte and go to sleep immediately.

    Gambling, browsing, etc feel good for the same reason, and I will never touch casinos, cocaine or street meth because I suspect that it’d ruin me.