• imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee
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    That’s not an insult it’s a curse

    Insult:

    Your elevator doesn’t quite go all the way up.

    You have all the creativity and emotional intelligence of a manager

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    If that happened it’d be the year of the linux desktop.

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    Refer to someone you’ve never met by their name if you can. This usually works best in a school or work setting. And when they ask how you know their name just simply reply:

    “Everyone knows who you are.” And walk away.

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    This happened to me. I was really really into AI when nobody even knew what it meant if not for hal, skynet and matrix, and now everybody talks of llms like they even know what the f they are.

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      Nah, nobody talks about LLMs. If I approached an average, everyday person about this topic, 99% of them wouldn’t know shit about it, while the tech-nerds all would.

      It’s not mainstream at alllll yet. I introduced a pair of people I game with to openai/gpt3.5 like…a week ago and they were absolutely beside themselves using it.

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        What I mean is that “back in my day” there were maybe 10 people in the world seriously investigating strong AI

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          I know some people doing old-school logic-based AI research. They’re happy because there’s more AI funding in general, and they can present themselves as “what neural networks are missing” or “the next big thing”. Or they come up with projects involving hybrid systems.

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            Symbolic AI? Pretty sure a combo of that and ML would be needed. Pure ML is too unreliable and have limited coherence, and nobody knows how to program useful symbolic AI from scratch. But if you combine them they can cover each other’s weak spots.

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          That’s unlikely. What’s more likely is that you were not yet exposed to AI research and did not read through the academic reviews and articles of the time. AI is a serious topic in science and engineering since more than half a century.

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            I was reading papers daily, and there was progress but even in the field of symbolic ai the focus was on weak ai, a range of approaches that try to solve single problems. They were trying to find marketable techniques, not looking for the sparkle of intelligence. Then big data came and people started specialising in techniques that were also useful for ml, and boom.

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          I remember when Google started running classifiers backwards for the first time to produce the very first generation of generative ML. Very small crowd following it closely.

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    Cycling? Great, increased funding for infrastructure and increased general awareness. Amateur radio? Lower prices for rigs, innovation, and more contacts to be made.

    If your interest in a hobby is based on its exclusivity, it may be that you’re more interested in exclusivity than in the hobby itself…

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      I think they were more likely referring to how when the public eye is on something many companies will start churning out low-effort products to capitalise on the interest. The market would be flooded with cheap and inferior products in that niche, potentially threatening the smaller business that actually cared about making quality products for those hobbyists. I know this won’t apply to every hobby, but there are definitely a number of them that will.

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      It’s not that some hobbies are based on exclusivity or even some other hipster rationalization, but there definitely is a period where a shit load of new people come in, read half a wiki page, then proceed to argue and talk down to people who have been at it for years. It ruins communities if the audience widens too much at once. I’ve been online long enough to have seen it happen multiple times.

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      Well, some people don’t do well with the higher speed and more social interaction it can lead to. It doesn’t have to result in giving up that hobby, but leaving communities related to it.

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    I would love for my hobbies to be more mainstream. More merch, more people to share the experience with, and presumably more content

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      This works up to a certain size, then you start having to contend with more shameless money grabs, scalpers catching wind of things and making it impossible for actual fans/users of the product to get stuff for a reasonable price and more scammers.

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        And the opposite end of that is the corporatization of your previously small cozy wholesome authentic cottage industry sized hobby. It happened to videogames in the late 2010s.

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        Its also implying that the hobby will eventually burn our or become cringe in the eyes of the public. As most fads do.

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    Thrifting used to be fun Now everyone thinks they’re a flipper and goodwill and other places have jacked up their prices to unreasonable levels.

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      Not to mention the fact that it’s (sort-of) taking materials that were attempted to be destined for the less fortunate

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        In ny area it’s in reverse: there’s no supply shortage but it’s much more socially acceptable to buy second hand clothes. The stigma on thrifting is way less.

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    Fr 10 years ago I was cool, but I kept doing the same things and now I’m just basic lol. Even the undercut became a popular hairstyle.

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    The thing is that the mainstream aspect will burn out, like most fads do, but the people who really love it will keep loving it, and some (usually small) amount of the new influx will also stick around permanently and enrich the community. It’s just about surviving through the fad part that is hard.

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    Honestly, homebrewing becoming a mainstream hobby would be pretty great, I’m always interested in trying a beer someone else brewed and it would probably make sourcing ingredients a lot easier if there was enough of a demand to necessitate a local shop in my area.