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The quality of hacker news commenters has been steadily declining, yet I'm still constantly surprised by just how mentally shallow and lazy some can be
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Is that something you say whenever someone doesn't follow the nostalgic hivemind ?
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It's not nostalgia. It's self-awareness and importantly self-worth.
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Do you respond with 'main character syndrome' to everyone who shares an opinion?
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Can you not post this style of sweeping rhetoric on HN? We're here for curious conversation, and comments like this are antithetical to that. Please take a moment to read the guidelines and make an effort to observe them when participating here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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You don't even know what "main character syndrome" is.
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What makes an appeal to experience, subjective or otherwise, an expression of Main Character Syndrome? Just because somebody pushes back against the tides doesn't mean they fancy themself more important than others. Further, they're not saying "we should all stop using LLMs". The title of the article is literally "Leave Me Behind", an expressed desire to no longer participate in a system they believe to be harmful.

They explicitly state a position they take for themself, whereas you make an implicit value judgement of all practitioners who feel similarly. This could be read in a way as an assumption that everyone else should be as miserable as you.

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> AI doesn't exist to make extroverts feel better about themselves

Then why are the extroverts trying to replace engineers with AI?

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Because it seems to be economically the right thing to do.
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Maximizing shareholder value seems like a weird thing to hold as a moral imperative.
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> Because it seems to be economically the right thing to do^H^H^H^H^H optimal for a few billionaires.

FTFY.

...though even the billionaires may regret it if the peasants wind up starving by the billions. Species don't do well with tiny populations.

And before anyone says "UBI," give me a coherent explanation of:

* who is going to fund UBI to the tune of fifty trillion dollars * why we're so confident they'll do that * why there are currently so many people starving and homeless in SF if if any tech billionaire feels the need to spend their money providing for other humans

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> Main character syndrome.

Do you even know what that means or you just saw a phrase online and like how it sounds? There’s nothing about main character here, the author doesn’t even advocate for anything.

> AI doesn't exist to make extroverts feel better about themselves. It's there to do the programming, no matter what humans feel about it. Please stop confusing your hobbies with the work needed to be done.

Get help, even if it is from the AI, seriously.

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