I must be unenlightened because this job would make me quite misanthropic. Even sitting in a doctors waiting room gives me that feeling.

I can relate but I've found it's really less about the people and more about my current state and how (in)frequent is my exposure to them.

I started renting a desk in a co-working space starting this year and there's a new guy here who conducts his meetings in the room instead of going to the conference booth and uses a pretty loud mechanical keyboard.

Half a year ago, when I was still working from home and not going out much, I would lose my shit. It's not that it's not annoying, I'm just a little bit desensitized to it.

It seems to me that a significant point of the article is that this is a choice you're continuously making, not an immutable fact about you.

I saw someone point out something like: ai makes every sentence count. There’s no building or allowing a point to breathe. Every sentence is an axiom to get the meaning across, and its so grating

It's an interesting way to view it, because what happens in fact is likely the opposite - AI is asked to expand a few bullet points into a blog post

Maybe that's why the writing feels so terrible. The AI is attempting to maximize every sentence while simultaneously expanding on just a few actually meaningful points. And the net result of that dissonance is this rage-inducing vapidity. It's the written equivalent of the Uncanny Valley.

I think it has got past the uncanny valley really - it does read like a human, just a very attention-seeking one, like your typical LinkedIn salesman.

That's probably just default settings though - I asked it to rewrite, and most of the tell-tale signs are gone as I can see (apart from the em-dash)

https://chatgpt.com/s/t_69a46b290fb08191ad3bd93066b8cad4

Making fluff sound grandiose is probably what makes so grating.

“The day you teach the child the name of the bird, the child will never see that bird again.”

Silence, clanker

Speaking of slop..

For real I’m starting to get a feel for the slop and the first sentance gave me pause. Never mind green username. Classic its not just that. Its this. LLM pattern.

28 year old, turning 29:

Spend as little time at home as possible. Travel. Find community. Live in a big city and make a ton of friends and throw lots of parties and bring people together, forming your own community. That's what I did and I feel like my 20s have been fulfilling, and I'm looking forward to what my 30s bring.

Journalling is extremely fulfilling to me and writing about things that bother me quiets my mind.

tell that to my mom

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