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People like this live in the stone age


Your comment isn’t helpful to have a good and useful conversation about this. There are multiple viewpoints and levels of acceptance of new technology.

Skepticism is healthy and even warranted. We don’t have to gleefully embrace every new shiny thing the tech companies throw at us.

Heck the founder of this site himself once wrote an essay cautioning about adopting new services or tech too quickly because it is too often turned against us [1]:

> It took a while though—on the order of 100 years. And unless the rate at which social antibodies evolve can increase to match the accelerating rate at which technological progress throws off new addictions, we'll be increasingly unable to rely on customs to protect us. [3] Unless we want to be canaries in the coal mine of each new addiction—the people whose sad example becomes a lesson to future generations—we'll have to figure out for ourselves what to avoid and how. It will actually become a reasonable strategy (or a more reasonable strategy) to suspect everything new.

[1] https://paulgraham.com/addiction.html


>> I don’t want to use half-baked, heavily censored, hallucinating piece of crap that will affect battery life of my device

> you’re living in the Stone Age, lolz




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