You could have made all these points about nearly any ubiquitous machine technology. It doesn't mean you're wrong, it just means you're being hyperbolic.
Fair enough - Yes, you can point to the original rise of tech like computers and robotic automation as analogous, but no previous machine technology has been so immediately and significantly impactful across such a vast array of professions. As for hyperbolic - therein lies the essence of snark, so... guilty as charged! ✌️
I've been acutely aware of this myself, and now the guilt historically reserved for the orders I give restaurant waitstaff has now digitized into gratitude and etiquette (gratiquette?) extended to water-ravenous, power grid-destabilizing, insensate data centers. I've used "please" and "thanks" like a Westworld patron who has the decency to reclothe the robot he just forcibly sodomized at knifepoint. Reminds me of this IG post sent to me a few days ago:
YES - I also reflexively start typing “thank you” as if this soulless tech is somehow entitled to the niceties of the social contract. But then when I omit them, I feel not just rude, but almost vicious. Little could our parents have ever imagined that all the politeness they drilled into us would ever be squandered that way.
Wow, you’ve done it again, John! And now I have to reconsider all the “your work” that I’ve been assigning to “Chad” on the daily (does everyone call it Chad, or is it just my family? 😅) I’m really scared now.
By the way, I think you’d really enjoy watching Brandon Sanderson’s podcast episode about AI and artists. I’ll link it below:
LOL @ "Chad". I've been loathe to humanize AI by calling it anything -- though I have zero doubt that they'll soon be introducing a feature lets users give custom names to our e-slaves. I'll probably follow Steve Martin's lead from The Jerk and call mine "Shithead."
You could have made all these points about nearly any ubiquitous machine technology. It doesn't mean you're wrong, it just means you're being hyperbolic.
Fair enough - Yes, you can point to the original rise of tech like computers and robotic automation as analogous, but no previous machine technology has been so immediately and significantly impactful across such a vast array of professions. As for hyperbolic - therein lies the essence of snark, so... guilty as charged! ✌️
I've been acutely aware of this myself, and now the guilt historically reserved for the orders I give restaurant waitstaff has now digitized into gratitude and etiquette (gratiquette?) extended to water-ravenous, power grid-destabilizing, insensate data centers. I've used "please" and "thanks" like a Westworld patron who has the decency to reclothe the robot he just forcibly sodomized at knifepoint. Reminds me of this IG post sent to me a few days ago:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DPMclPLjAGy/
YES - I also reflexively start typing “thank you” as if this soulless tech is somehow entitled to the niceties of the social contract. But then when I omit them, I feel not just rude, but almost vicious. Little could our parents have ever imagined that all the politeness they drilled into us would ever be squandered that way.
https://youtu.be/fTIyTuAArtw
Thanks Kathleen - I'm looking forward to watching this!
Wow, you’ve done it again, John! And now I have to reconsider all the “your work” that I’ve been assigning to “Chad” on the daily (does everyone call it Chad, or is it just my family? 😅) I’m really scared now.
By the way, I think you’d really enjoy watching Brandon Sanderson’s podcast episode about AI and artists. I’ll link it below:
LOL @ "Chad". I've been loathe to humanize AI by calling it anything -- though I have zero doubt that they'll soon be introducing a feature lets users give custom names to our e-slaves. I'll probably follow Steve Martin's lead from The Jerk and call mine "Shithead."