jjulius

I'm a parent in my 30's. Call me up anytime, for whatever. Always down to chat!

You don't go into a marriage assuming you'll get divorced. You assume you won't, hope for the best, work not to, and then it happens. You work through those problems with the child so that it hopefully doesn't impact them as much as it otherwise could.

The loneliness epidemic is driven by companies maximizing keeping their customers engaged with their screens, something OpenAI is wont to do. Knowing that the company wants customers engaged and that this will do that, and also knowing that that plays into the loneliness epidemic by substituting human interaction, makes it far different than getting married and then maybe or maybe not getting divorced.

...no one would say this about listening to a podcast or audiobook on a walk.

I highly recommend simply enjoying the walk. :)

I highly recommend simply enjoying the walk.

Min-max all the things! Overengineer everything!

/s

Or you reach for a certain area of the screen out of muscle memory, but the UI changed "just because" and now you're very distracted.

There is no self.

I think we have the answer to is Zuckerberg a "dimwitted or just evil". It's probably the former.

Why is this an either/or? Those aren't mutually exclusive.

I crave more attempts to find a way to live in harmony with the natural world in a way that still supports us all as best as possible.

If, as I've read in other comments here, the problem around Salt Lake is due to man diverting the flow of water to it for their own purposes, I only see diverting ocean water to it as more of the exact same type of hubris that got us to this point.

Asking because I'm genuinely curious myself, how much of this is unemployment vs the fact that so many more people work from home now compared to pre-2008? Many of those that WFH work a more flexible schedule and probably structure their days a lot differently than 20+ years ago.

This whole FOMO thing isn't as real, nor as detrimental, for kids as people try and paint it. That's not to say there's not an impact, but kids survive just fine - everyone misses out on this and that, even adults who opt out. Nobody ever keeps up or is involved with everything everyone's doing. Learning that that's okay, and how to handle that, at a younger age pays dividends as an adult.

Besides, there are many ways to still keep your kids connected to their friends without feeding the beast.

And I say this as a parent.

That said, if I don't use AI at all, since I pride myself on running a technical blog, not detecting technical errors would also be a problem. So it's a dilemma.

Is it? To err is human. Embrace the risk of technical errors and what/how we learn from them.

The issue is that human writing is generally rougher. But if we insist on preserving only human writing, we end up having to define humanity's roughness as mere "barbarism."

Is it truly "barbarism", or is it just... human? What's wrong with writing being a bit "rough around the edges"?

Instead we chose to assume scientists collectively behave on a higher plane.

People are people.

It’s the fear, the enshittification, datacenter hostility, and the tech broligarchy

It's also peak "tech hubris". The broader world has largely complained about Silicon Valley's "we know better than you" attitude for a long time, and the push for AI/LLMs is that attitude on steroids.

In case folk don't connect the dots, this appears to be Shawn Nunley from the article.

Am I having deja vu? I saw this exact same thread a few days ago, with the very same comment about the non sequitur. When I search for it on HN, the search results say the thread was posted "3 days ago", but when I open the thread, it says "3 hours ago".

What's happening?

So instead we ended up with the only Calvin and Hobbes items in the physical world being those vinyl bumper stickers of Calvin pissing on things...

... and, of course, all of the various collections of the comics in print form, up to and including the full box set, that everyone can check out from libraries or purchase and keep in perpetuity. Ya know, the actual thing, the meat of it, the heart, the soul - not tangential merchandise.

Some artistic vision.

Talk about completely missing the point.

Knowing Watterson, I'd wager he's taken certain paths to prevent this from happening.

My wife and I take turns each night doing bedtime for our two girls, 4/6. I have the full C&H box set and, a whiiiiile back, my oldest asked what it was and if we could read it.

For over a year now, any time it's my time to do bedtime, we have to read C&H and cannot read anything else. We've been cruising through it from start to finish and are, within the next week or so, going to reach the end.

Both kiddos, especially my oldest, have been demanding that we start it over. I'll probably table it for a couple of years and then come back to it when they're just a bit older, but yeah... kids definitely know about it and really do appreciate/enjoy it.

Edit: To say nothing of the idea that, eventually, everything fades into obscurity. I feel like what you're lamenting is something that actually jives with Watterson philosophically.

Let's not have a conversation, ask questions and understand nuance, let's just flippantly assert judgement via absolutes!

And the landline at home doesn't help you coordinate pickups and drop-offs as people start to do a wider variety of activities.

How did people coordinate these before even email became widespread?

Same! ~25 years or so for me. I'm just now letting my oldest begin to manipulate the vinyl records beyond just playing them, but they've both loved slapping CDs into my CDJs and going wild with them.

It's a massive struggle. I'm somewhat thankful that we didn't have kids until after it was apparent what the impact of this sort of ecosystem has on them, and it's refreshing to meet other parents who feel the same way. Who knows what kind of success we'll have, but it's reassuring to know that there's a push from at least some subset of parents with littles.

Awesome! My kiddos love digging through my vinyl collection.

What a dumbphone doesn't solve is the social tax — opting a kid out of the addictive layer can also opt them out of the group chat. That's the actually-hard part.

It's hard to say how this'll go in the long run. I have two littler children right now, and a lot of the parents of much younger kids, at least in the area we live in, seem to be trying really hard to move in the "dumb phone/don't let them fall into these addictive layers" direction. Many of the parents we meet talk about eventually giving them dumb phones, or getting a landline at home so kids can call each other.

My hope is that with sustained effort from the community, this sort of concern falls by the wayside to a good degree. Who knows how it'll play out in the long-term given how much our culture has structured itself around this bullshit, but it's nice to see folk trying to push back in a more concerted way.

Disagree and if you actively use it in your workflow well you will realize its a major competitive edge.

Depends on your line of work. I regularly try to incorporate it with mine and find myself telling it that it's wrong more often than not. I'm yet to be convinced that double-checking and correcting an LLM's work has saved me any more time than wading through garbage SEO-filled results to find what I need.

Nobody is going to hold you back from falling behind tho and I'm not here to convince you otherwise.

The cockiness/hubris is real.

D'oh! Sorry! I'll go grab some more coffee before trying to think critically.

The fact that people have instantly and permanently stolen Bitcoin renders that argument moot.

It is special in the universe unless proven otherwise.

There's that hubristic ego OP references.

What about the less-tech-literate-than-us adult who tried their best to lock down the phone they gave their teen for "emergencies only", but the teen ended up hopping on social media anyway because of FOMO from their friends who were already there?

The kids feel the pressure from their own social circles, I can see it even with my littles and their requests for tablets and Minecraft at their young ages. And if they choose to give into that pressure in spite of their parent's best efforts, much of what they might use is designed to keep them there.

I made a comment about the petroleum industry's feedback loop making it hard for me to fully fault petroleum users for continuing to drive demand for oil in another comment in this chain. Like it or not, our society has become so structured around social media that we're already seeing something similar play out there. That feedback loop is driven by the companies at fault here.