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.
The exact opposite actually starbucks and others that are similar are for people who aren't stuck up and have things to get done so they need something quick since they didn't have time to make it at home.
Coffee is for caffeine to get work done, to me an iced latte or ice coffee from Starbucks tastes just fine compared some $10 latte at some over hyped coffee shop.
Corona and lime is good also not sure why people hate on it. No one cares how cool the craft beer drinkers think they are.
You get that kind of people with anything really: bread, wine, cheeses, chocolate and food in general.
There are those who care about the quality, craftsmanship and taste, since they can enjoy it, and then those who just see those as a good way to get something specific (booze, calories, umami, etc.)
To be totally honest, the ones who care are the people who, whether people like it or not, want the product to be at its best form and shape.
Same, that is the one thing traveling did for me. After seeing and living in different countries i just have a new found appreciation and calmness to where from now. It’s like something i can’t describe but i just feel so comfortable and don't take things for granted anymore. You spend enough time in other countries and you realize how frustrating just simple daily things can be. There is really nowhere in the world like America.
They were just less sheltered. I mean many people in countries across the world live in worse conditions.
To be honest most people in America have become so comfortable that they just look for problems to make there lives seem harder than they really are now days.
I would be willing to bet people were also happier back then too.
You better watch out though I would actually be more worried with that type of relationship because your wife will now realize she has unlimited options and start to second guess. So many divorces happen now from things as simple as a facebook message leading to an affair.
That fear of missing out could hit hard and lots of people get blindsided by it.
No i disagree has nothing to do with that. The downfall is when it became a way for people to make money. Monetizing social media ruined it plain and simple. Now it's just full of people spamming the same trends and posting anything to go viral. The fact we literally have a generation of people of average people who do cringey dances and cringey voice overs as a job is insane.
And "Free Will" is the observation of one's inability to predict one's own actions.
As an aside, the claims that people are willing to make about language models are quite astounding considering that they never seem to realize that most of those claims apply to humans also...
