I think he doesn't understand "anti-ai"

rhetorical question: when you're anti-*, do you go out and do the thing you're against? Like if you're anti-smoking, do you go out and smoke a big fat vape? No, you do not. In other terminology, we call that hypocrisy.

I'd say the majority of people's reasons against AI isn't just about the environmental impact but the offloading of your cognitive and mental ability, why would someone be anti-ai and still use ai when it directly hinders the ability to cognitively think in the first place.

Anyways, the reason I'm pointing this out, is if you're anti-ai, the philosophy assumes you don't use LLM's in the first place. So when someone asks this (redundant) question of "can you work without chatgpt?" or "if chatgpt disappeared, would you still be able to get through the day?" I've already been doing it.

I can get through my day without using chatGPT. It's a tool for the briefest of my circumstances (mostly for tedious work), and I could do my day without using it and without hindering my performance.

The funny thing is that meth actually increases productivity in a way where YOU are actually doing the fucking work.

Unlike AI which not only does it for you so you begin to get rusty and lose your ability to be effective, but it gets all the work fucking wrong as well.

Essentially what I'm saying is that meth is a more effective workplace tool than AI. I'm sure a lot of psychopathic, shark tank type business people would agree with me.

I'm not trying to say meth is a good thing. I'm just saying it's legitimately a more useful tool than fucking AI.

Work in cybersecurity. Don't use AI. Thanks to AI all the search engines are fucked.

Please let it die.

I use AI at work everyday. If it went away the only thing that would change is I’d just go back to googling stuff

Me, a Meth Addict, constantly trying to blow meth smoke in your face and stab you with meth needles: "You're going to have a pretty hard time getting by without it!"

These are things I already never use. Oh the horror

I dig trenches with a shovel. There is no USB port on my shovel. I thank the almighty gods for that small blessing.

Um did buddy not exist before AI? We got this far without it so...

Definitely. I haven't even begun to use it yet and its already pissing me off. If I touch the phone in just the wrong way it starts doing AI at me. Turns out it starts doing AI at me if I hold the power button down to turn it off. Imagine my anger.

Every time I turn my Windows laptop on it throws more and more copilot bollocks at me that I dont need or want and dont have the time to try and disable so I just have to spend the whole time fighting it off like a dog trying to hump my leg when I'm trying to cook dinner.

I'm not anti-AI, but I'm most definitely anti-corporate greed. I wish there was moderation in all of this. I wish there were regulations instead of letting companies blindly buy hardware before it's even made based on what they or their competitors might be doing 2 years from now. Fuck that.

With that said, yes, AI is a helpful tool, yes, I'm using it every day at work, and yes, I can do without it no problem - just like I have for many many years.

What's scary is that AI as a service is really expensive, and the AI companies have been selling tokens as a severe loss all this time.

If you're that dependent on AI, what happens when you have to bear the full price?

You're going to give up your AI girlfriend, is what.

If it were banned, would it matter if you "willing" to give it up? Dumbass question.

And yes, I could do my job easily.

In my experience, LLMs have been very good at writing unit code. Definitely don't miss Stackoverflow. Besides this (and framing silly stuff), they aren't there yet. They will be at some point in the future with some interesting architectural progress, but I haven't personally experienced this future yet.

All of these people that want to end billionaires, or reduce their accumulated wealth, I have one question: if billionaires disappeared tomorrow would you still get through an entire day of your life? Imagine if the rich were eaten? Would you really be willing to give them up?

Don't threaten me with a good time.

If I fart in the woods and nobody is there to hear it, will you ever recover from that?

This betrays such a lack of imagination (and probably empathy), as he is completely incapable of conceiving that people don't use LLMs as much as he does.

Haters are absolutely people that use it all the time but are against it? For clout? To simply hate on something?

It's a good accelerator for mundane tasks, and usually a good indicator that you could farm those tasks out to an intern.

You should give AI the same responsibility and trust that you give to a green intern because it will confidently fuck things up and requires an experienced eye to review anything it produces.

If AI went away tomorrow, we could probably take the cost and redistribute it to a graduate or two.

I did the job before without it so yeah.

I'm 50. I would do just fine without AI like I did when we didn't have the Internet. I'll adjust. It might be a pain without GPS, Google Maps. Being without a cell phone would be a big one for me as well. It's not like we have pay phones anymore. And I would have to go back to pagers/beepers. But i would manage either way.

I’d just go back to doing my job the old way and know there are excel formulas out there AI taught me

Last time I sullied my fingers with a copilot prompt, it decided lobster was vegan so I immediately scrapped that idea and went back to real intelligence. I would be 100.00% delighted if "AI" disappeared.

This is the 3rd of 4th time recently that I've heard someone, directly or indirectly, describe AI like meth. The first one was Hank Green when he said something along the lines of getting hooked on 'being able to get things done faster,' which is exactly how many people end up meth-heads.