pessimism

• headline, Heavy ChatGPT use linked to intellectual laziness and social isolation https://archive.is/8rU1o

offloading of critical thinking, dangerous? the natural thing for a human to do, is to take the path of least resistance. to do the easiest thing. obviously not everyone is doing this for everything, but is the fundamental way we function in day to day life. obviously you're not going to make life harder, why would you go out of your way to keep your toothbrush in the kitchen, the toothpaste in the living room, then use them in the bathroom and return everything where it came from? now that's just an insignificant thing that doesn't matter how hard or time consuming the process is. now what about more important things, like your wellbeing, the significant choices you like in life, education, career, etc. in my personal experience, it seems like thing people seriously skimp out on is ensuring they have a good future, planning ahead. prioritizing now, instead of worrying about the future and making sacrifices now is hard, and not something everyone can do. this kind of thing highly effects lower class persons, and people with physical and mental disabilties or untreated mental illness and other conditions.

so what will happen in the future as ai continues to be easily accessible to nearly everyone on the planet? there are a lot of stupid people out there, and my thinking is they they will become less intelligent as a result of severe offloading. current ai makes it is to think as little as possible, you can basically treat it as a second brain which handles more of your mental load. what will happen in say 10 years as ai gets better, assuming free/cheap models are still available to the public? this more advanced ai will probably be even more detrimental to humans. sure, the smart will still get smart, the dumb will get dumber, but what else will be happening? what will society look like, how will people interact with eachother? cheap internet connected smartphones and maliciously addictive dopamine loop apps were highly detrimental to society if you ask me. now mix in ai. people are already using chatbots to communicate with other people, and not just boring business emails, they're communicating with coworkers and friends with llm generated responses. i can only imagine the trend will continue to become more people and grow worse. i feel like i'm starting to spout incomplete thoughts here, but there is just so much to think about and say regarding this topic. the ai revolution will be one of the greatest influences on mankind (and the earth) since the industrial revolution. i don't think hardly anyone realizes just how big this is, and how bad things will become.

to me it feels like almost everyone in america at some point just rolled over and became mindless cattle. accepting our horrible, late stage captilism dystopia where every electronic is gathering date on your and your surroundings. privacy for the modern man has pretty much been taken away. people are treated like walking wallets only to be exploited. every screen has to display ads, all the time. everything you do and think needs to be logged in a database somewhere, never to be deleted. it feels like americans are already not thinking, and not caring about the future, and the next generation will probably be even worse with their ai lobotomy at birth.

what about myself, what will ai do to me? i have learning disability (in case that wasn't already apparent) and i've always been a very low effort lazy person. i have adhd, but have never been medicated. as a result, i am very chaotic, "randumb", disorganized. a mess of an adult. but function, if not emotionally stunted. what the future holds for me, it's hard to say, though i think i could fall into the trap of letting ai do too much of my thinking. right now i mainly use it for dumb stuff on the computer, stuff i probably wouldn't have wanted to put any effort into anyways. we'll have to wait and see what happpens.

sad rant over, for now perhaps some electronics posting soon?

i recently rediscovered aliexpress, i visited the website for the first time in nearly ten years, and prompty ordered about 80 different things. various tools, hobbyist electronics and accessories, MCUs, a few home goods. there's way too many useful things that can be had for $1-5.

I grabbed a heltec v3 too, but there are definitely no nodes around me, guess someone has got to be the first. i picked up a better whip for it, just need an outdoor enclosure and solar panel. i wonder how HOAs feel about random gear being stuck to your roof? only one way to find out. meshtastic has been around for 6 years now I guess, i'm surprised it hasn't gotten more popular. i suppose most hobbyists still don't know about it or think it's a waste of time and money. I got my base unit on sale for just $8 instead of $22 which certainly helps.

here is most of the first haul, about a quarter of my order. mayber i overdid it a little, there's definitely a lot of things that will be scarcely used over the next decade. but hey, at least i'm going to be able to fully utilize my little plastic bins now.

now that i'm actually sitting (standing) here writing, i'm getting a lot of ideas for things i want to write about, despite the fact that i am probably the worst writer and least interesting person on earth. let's see how that pans out, or if the audhd burnout wins. normally i totally lose interest in things after a week.

and you know what, i really like seeing pictures in blogs. I think i'm going to try embedding pictures in these posts regularly since i have an easy work flow to get pics sent to my image host from anywhere. makes me feel kind of nostalgic for the older days of the internet. fuck short format videos, give me pictures.

music this week

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