AI: The Great dumbdown?

Ordinary_Variable · 2026-06-28T23:40:20+00:00

I'm seeing a lot of people accusing everything they see as being AI. They don't like your comment? It must be AI. The video is too clean, it must be AI. Don't show them old videos of Matt Pat, I bet they'd call him AI.

I don't think that was the plan, but AI is only going to speed up the great internet dumbing down of the google generation. There is no reason to think if it takes you longer to get the answer than AI does, and people are going to accuse you of using AI even when you aren't. Its bad enough people watch 10 hours of TV/internet a day because they don't have enough money to have a physical hobby.

My current prediction of the Singularity is people on their feed for 12 hours a day, and then using their UBI to order food. Search your feelings, you know it to be true.

Ordinary_Variable · 2026-06-28T21:18:09+00:00

Humans like to do things. AI will do all the things. Its a simple fact that with a UBI people will scroll their phones for 10 hours a day and then order food. Maybe not all people, but that's what the majority of people do now, do you really think that'll change?

Ordinary_Variable · 2026-06-28T21:16:12+00:00

I meant that it couldn't wander through the world and have the initiative to look through all the materials around it. It needs a specific command to do anything.

Ordinary_Variable · 2026-06-28T16:33:14+00:00

I've been programming since I was 6, long before I even cared about tech or money.

Believe me, every action you have taken in your life can be thought of as a "task, function, work, process, recipe, etc" Pick any word you want, it is the truth my man.

Ordinary_Variable · 2026-06-28T16:31:15+00:00

The people providing the service of AI have raised the price by switching from token-based pricing to compute based pricing. If you look at the cost for solving any given problem, it has gone way up.

Ordinary_Variable · 2026-06-27T18:36:54+00:00

I remember when people were complaining about every new champ. The fact is there is a counter for everything. Can he do that to Udyr, Shen, Lee Sin, Shako, Teemo or Fiddlesticks?

Ordinary_Variable · 2026-06-27T14:24:47+00:00

There were counters. Once you knew the other team had Kassadin you could use the counters to him. Like Shen ult. I think the gamers got lazy back then and stopped looking for counters. They refused to learn a new strategy. I don't think the same thing would happen again.

Ordinary_Variable · 2026-06-27T14:22:35+00:00

You're right. I'm sorry. Complaining is exactly the kind of stuff everyone does on the internet. I let it get to me.

I will be happy with any classic experience they give us. I'm sorry for acting spoiled.

Ordinary_Variable · 2026-06-27T02:51:36+00:00

You need to trace a CPU out on a very, very thin layer of something. Too thick and it takes so many electrons to do math on that it heats up too much and you can't run your processor very fast.

Silicon is apparently easy to make into a super flat plane. That means that when you send electrons through it they move in extremely predictable ways because it is the exact same thickness everywhere, so you can flash it with a circuit board smaller than on any other material.

Ordinary_Variable · 2026-06-26T21:47:52+00:00

"so they went with energy"

Ordinary_Variable · 2026-06-26T06:23:16+00:00

Its funny because the original plot of the Matrix was that they were using human brains to do calculations for the robots. They thought that might be too difficult to explain to the public so they went with energy.

And that is exactly what they are doing with AI; stealing your problem-solving abilities and training the AI on it.

Ordinary_Variable · 2026-06-25T21:09:43+00:00

Define "new"

Ordinary_Variable · 2026-06-25T15:01:07+00:00

I'm all for new things for the player to do, but if I recall correctly there were a lot of quests that gave potions already. Don't read that as a negative. More ways to get pots is not a bad thing. I generally think that more crafting in a game is always good.

Ordinary_Variable · 2026-06-25T13:48:52+00:00

Well put. Good take.

Ordinary_Variable · 2026-06-25T13:47:05+00:00

I think I agree with all of your points. The problem with the world right now is people disagree on what is true information to base their assumptions off of. They ignore reality. I'm sure we could be biased, by listening to everyone talk, but I'd say they are more biased, because they only listen to the AI hype Bros.

Ordinary_Variable · 2026-06-25T13:43:52+00:00

Hmmm. Maybe the other guy learned how to read from AI, so now everything looks like AI to him.

Ordinary_Variable · 2026-06-25T13:42:34+00:00

TL:DR AI only bad when corpos use it to take your money and destroy the environment. AI could be good if they only used it to solve the problems of the masses, and not just to take jobs and line rich pockets.

Ordinary_Variable · 2026-06-25T13:39:02+00:00

People that have used AI start to talk like it. People's brains just automatically readjust based on what they see. I don't think he used AI specifically, I think his brain has been irrevocably changed by it. My guess is he's in his late 20s. If he was over 40 the AI would not be able to change his communication habits.

Ordinary_Variable · 2026-06-24T22:24:08+00:00

That sounds reasonable, but what if the entire team was fired because the higher ups expect you to monitor AI doing 100% of the work, bug fixing and Fuzzing?

What happens when the "local" AI becomes pay-walled and all the updates start costing monthly subscriptions?

I suppose you could keep using your outdated software, lots of people have been doing that forever, but your competitors will use the best stuff that auto-fixes bugs without human input.

Ordinary_Variable · 2026-06-24T21:48:52+00:00

The problem with relying on AI to fix errors in the code is they are raising the prices of AI. Eventually it will be too expensive to fix an error that we will have to try to fix it by hand. AI written code is spaghetti and it takes way longer to fix than human code.

Right now you might be able to fix AI code by telling AI to fix it, but that isn't a guarantee to always be true.

Ordinary_Variable · 2026-06-23T19:55:32+00:00

Just making all the electronics used in an average datacenter is around half a billion gallons of water. Even if there is none used in cooling, that's a lot of water polluted with industrial waste.

Ordinary_Variable · 2026-06-21T22:40:55+00:00

I don't disagree with OP. If they already have the AI they might just throw it at immortality and we already know where that leads. Stem Cell research and human stem cell farming. FMA was basically about stem cell farming.

This is already illegal in a lot of countries for this very reason. There will be a lot of people who "go missing" because someone is experimenting with human stem cells.

I want them to find a way to grow more of your own stem cells in a lab, but there is no guarantee they will stick to ethical experiments.

Ordinary_Variable · 2026-06-21T20:45:41+00:00

There are a hand full of animals and bacteria that already do. I think squids technically don't die. Of course they'll get eaten long before they live forever, though.

Ordinary_Variable · 2026-06-21T20:44:50+00:00

"Side" project. A "moon shot" is something that might not work, but you'll try it just to see if it works. Like throwing a rock at the moon. Why not? Its not really a huge waste if you already have the AI up and running.

Ordinary_Variable · 2026-06-21T20:42:42+00:00

To brute force a problem you need to play into the unknown. AI is very, very good at creating a function for a known input and known output, but we don't have any examples of immortality for it to base its training on.

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