[sim7c00]

you survived a lot longer than I did. I feel like this for a long time now. I just use it now to do research, check HN feed for some news / procrastinating when I'm bored. Despite posting here n there I kind of assume its just talking into the wind or getting reviewed by bots.

I even like AI somewhat, some things it produces. pretty pictures i guess. scfi-fi. but still its not engaging anymore, you get saturated very quickly if things are always available.

The internet seems pretty much dead for a long long time already. a few bastions here n there of maybe-real-people talking. I had some minor hope AI/ML might actually improve things, get rid a bit of the bubbles caused by algos, but its gotten much much worse actually.

AI is not the cause of the decline or rot, but its definitely accelerating it.

A lot of things I cared about are taken over by the loud-n-stupid bunch who yells only in blanket statements and never seems to be able to produce any sound reasoning or evidence for their discourse. i call them bots despite them likely being confused humans...

The worse thing is, that it seems now more and more actual people in the real world are mimicking this behavior. Trying to say smart things about topics they know nothing about, because if chatGPT can give some smart sounding lines, why shouldnt I be able to? I am researcher of technology and the number of times people hand my vibe-coded or written totalgarbage to review or fix, (papers, experiments etc.). Their capacity to think and reason is diminishing fast. They will be fierce and toxic if you highlight this as a concern, or point at any of their hallucinations.

I've expeirenced already a few times that people, like a group of zombies, gang up on me (debate/argument) and all jump on arguments which are trivially proven to be incorrect. Even if you prove them incorrect infront of them, they will just try to eat your brain/prove you wrong by talking louder etc. - and these are 'highly educated individuals'.

Considering to leave my research job, after about 12 years of trying to work myself into such a position, and just go back where i started.. to drive a forklift. its more likely i'd be working with real humans there. and if it's a robot, atleast its a real fuckin robot, not one of these infiltrator units...