Why would people read it? There is giant mud fight happening between idiots believing AI is the devil and idiots believing AI is their new lord and savior. And like most morons only interested in that kind of team sport they already picked their side to cheer for. No actual arguments or thinking required.
No, I stand beside the two sides rolling my eyes every single time another “Look! Linus is criticising AI use in the kernel! He’s fighting the devil alongside us!!” / “Look, Linus is using AI! He got converted to the one true faith!!” article gets published. Which is every other day at the moment, because it’s really important to keep the main sport event going so the idiots don’t lose interest or –even worse– start to actually think for themselves.
No, calling pigs rolling around in the mud pigs is neither an insult nor taking part in the strange mud bath ritual.
But as you seem to be bad with analogies:
Spouting ideology for the sake of it is bullshit no matter which side does it. Pitting your ideological dogmas against each other is not a discussion. If that’s your thing start a new religion (that’s not even far off from some of the influencer and tech-bro bullshit nowadays anyway…).
Most people are sick of the always same “AI is the evil and will destroy us all!”, “No, you need to embrace our saviour AI that will save us all or get left behind!” idiocy repeated a million times in slightly different spelling. You need to be absolutely lost in a delusion to miss the costantly alternating pattern of pro-AI / anti-AI posts in social and other media pushed to keep engagement going. Ffs… when it’s about the Linux kernel it’s even worse and even more obvious when we are bombarded with alternating pro- and anti-AI statements from the same single person. People can’t be that dense. So why pretend that at this point it’s something else but induced insanity.
That’s the false dichotomy gospel of social media, that says only two extreme polar opposite opinions are possible on any issue, and anyone who claims otherwise is secretly on whichever side is wrong. But I agree, most controversial discussions are nothing but mud fights because few people bother to think about the nuances of an issue. They take in minimal information and make a value judgement based mostly on preconceptions, so they can scroll on to the next item as fast as possible.
Why would people read it? There is giant mud fight happening between idiots believing AI is the devil and idiots believing AI is their new lord and savior. And like most morons only interested in that kind of team sport they already picked their side to cheer for. No actual arguments or thinking required.
And you’re here standing in between the two sides, casting mud in both directions and thinking you’re not getting any mud on yourself in the process?
No, I stand beside the two sides rolling my eyes every single time another “Look! Linus is criticising AI use in the kernel! He’s fighting the devil alongside us!!” / “Look, Linus is using AI! He got converted to the one true faith!!” article gets published. Which is every other day at the moment, because it’s really important to keep the main sport event going so the idiots don’t lose interest or –even worse– start to actually think for themselves.
So this:
wasn’t mud-slinging, in your opinion? Calling someone an idiot isn’t an attack?
No, calling pigs rolling around in the mud pigs is neither an insult nor taking part in the strange mud bath ritual.
But as you seem to be bad with analogies:
Spouting ideology for the sake of it is bullshit no matter which side does it. Pitting your ideological dogmas against each other is not a discussion. If that’s your thing start a new religion (that’s not even far off from some of the influencer and tech-bro bullshit nowadays anyway…).
Most people are sick of the always same “AI is the evil and will destroy us all!”, “No, you need to embrace our saviour AI that will save us all or get left behind!” idiocy repeated a million times in slightly different spelling. You need to be absolutely lost in a delusion to miss the costantly alternating pattern of pro-AI / anti-AI posts in social and other media pushed to keep engagement going. Ffs… when it’s about the Linux kernel it’s even worse and even more obvious when we are bombarded with alternating pro- and anti-AI statements from the same single person. People can’t be that dense. So why pretend that at this point it’s something else but induced insanity.
That’s the false dichotomy gospel of social media, that says only two extreme polar opposite opinions are possible on any issue, and anyone who claims otherwise is secretly on whichever side is wrong. But I agree, most controversial discussions are nothing but mud fights because few people bother to think about the nuances of an issue. They take in minimal information and make a value judgement based mostly on preconceptions, so they can scroll on to the next item as fast as possible.