Sending an automated thank you note also shows disdain for the recipient's time due to the asymmetry of the interaction. The sender clearly sees the thank you note sending as a task not worthy of their time and thus hands it off to a machine, but expects the recipient to read it themselves. This inherently ranks the importance of their respective time and effort.

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xnx 34 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Yes. Just like lazy pull requests, it's bad behavior by a person that is only facilitated by AI.

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exabrial an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

^ I couldn't have said it better.

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XorNot an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Really makes you appreciate the point of view of the Scramblers in Blindsight...

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echelon 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

How is that any different than Hallmark? Humanity has outsourced this for a long time. Low-effort gifts, regifted gifts, bad white elephant gifts, etc. etc.

There's nothing stopping you from appreciating heartfelt effort. That is still possible today.

To be clear, I don't like automated low effort stuff like this. But I hate the internet's psychosis-like reaction to AI more.

It's become a vile performative meme to state how much you hate AI. The tone is always one of bravery and sacrifice mixed with disgust.

You know how you can tell someone hates AI? They'll tell you fifty times. It's becoming a personality type.

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tokioyoyo 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Everything mentioned in the first paragraph as arguments still takes some personal time and effort. The amount of time that’s involved to receive and acknowledge the gift is smaller than the amount of time to prepare the gift. So it feels “right”.

Not sure if I’m making sense, but that’s how I’d feel about it.

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AnimalMuppet 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If you send me a Hallmark card, you don't take the time to compose it yourself, but you presumably don't just pick one at random. You read it, to decide if you like the tone and sentiment. You may read several before you pick one. That is, it still takes your time even if the words aren't yours.

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globalnode 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

you can just disagree with reasons rather than this performative rhetoric. your post makes me realise i was wrong to tease people about rust the other day -- apologies for that.

edit: changed "ad hominem" to "performative rhetoric", think its more fitting in this case but it all seems borderline

	▲	slg 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		>you can just disagree with reasons rather than this performative rhetoric This is such a bizarre trend that seems to have gotten much worse recently. I don't know if it's dropping empathy levels or rising self-importance, but many people now find the idea of someone genuinely disagreeing as a completely foreign idea. Instead of meeting a different viewpoint with some variation of "agree to disagree" many more people now seem to jump to "you actually agree with me, you're just pretending otherwise". Non-tongue-in-cheek discussion of the Mandela Effect is a parallel phenomenon. "My memory can't possibly be wrong, this is evidence of our understanding of physics being wrong!" Just a couple small things that make me worry about the future of society in the midst of a discussion about one huge thing that makes me worry about the future of society in AI.

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dare944 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> I hate the internet's psychosis-like reaction to AI more. The tone is always one of bravery and sacrifice mixed with disgust. You know how you can tell someone hates AI? They'll tell you fifty times. It's becoming a personality type.

Tell me again about performative rage.

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rubiksx 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This made me laugh, because it looks as if it were written by an AI, which would be ironic.

I’m sad Rob got so upset. I understand why, but no one wants technodystopia.

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latexr 2 hours ago | parent [-]

> no one wants technodystopia.

What some people see as technoutopia, others see as technodystopia. In other words, some people do want your version of technodystopia, they just don’t call it that themselves.

	▲	test6554 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		When robots start sending us bullets, we'll probably look back fondly at the time when they sent us thank you letters.