What if you simply announce that you are recording and remind them they have the option to hang up if they don’t like it

Normalization is a legitimate, effective, and popular technique employed across the entire entertainment industry. Most well produced audio will have degrees of the effect applied tastefully.

I have no idea what youtube’s “normalization” is doing that ruins the quality of their audio to such a noticeable extent. It’s also totally indiscriminate of the video’s existing audio production. It sucks for someone to work hard and produce a good mix only for youtube to ruin it without your consent, possibly years after release

Could be the opposite as well, youtube a while ago rolled out a “normalization” thing by default that absolutely ruins all audio on the platform and needs to be disabled on every device you have. Supposedly it was set to automatically disable for music but that depends on the uploader

Spotify streams have always been garbage in my experience, but I haven’t had a subscription in about a decade now so no idea if that’s still true

A dude going “yeah bro I’m like a thousand times faster bro I get a day’s worth of work done in ten seconds bro” is the opposite of concrete lol.

And then for details he mumbles about “calendars bro and uh, meetings! It’s all connected bro!”

There have been case studies about this. Your buddy, like many thousands of other people, is simply delusional regarding the perceived efficiency gains. People whose productivity literally decreases, measurably, often report that they have more than doubled their productivity.

However, I doubt they’d care to waste time arguing with such a hardened skeptic

Why not send them over? I mean they get their whole year’s worth of work done by the second week of January, right? Even with ten or fifteen jobs they should have tons of free time yes? Or is their financial reality, for some unknown reason, not in line with their enormous head turning productivity?

I’m on ten seconds of thought now and I am FREAKING OUT

If AI requires so much patience and persistence to use properly, how do you expect to achieve anything with it? You, who by your own admission, quits when you are initially unsuccessful?

Is “less than once a week” of time investment your official recommendation of how much is needed to “not get left behind” in developing our “prompt engineering” skills that will be in such high demand?

To be honest I don’t understand why I’m supposed to be anxious about your random office worker buddy using AI set up some reminders and calendar invites. Does it not strike you as odd that literally nobody can come up with specific, concrete examples of how the technology has improved their efficiency as a matter of fact? Like it’s all just a vibe they have followed by the bare claim that they are working 20 times faster, but that reality never seems to materialize in a way that can be measured by anyone else.

He also describes it as “soooo easy”, so again, where is this investment of skill that I should be worried about not doing? Like are there any “prompt engineering” skills that take more than a few minutes to learn?

Is this just your bit? Make an inflammatory quip then edit in an entirely different paragraph after the person responds?

And in turn, people have employed this exact counterargument for each and every single one of the scams the owner class has attempted to employ in recent memory, from the metaverse, to crypto, to NFTs, and now to chatbots that tell you how very special and smart you are. “Industrial revolution was a very good thing! Therefore this totally unrelated and unproven proposal is equally very good! Yayyyy!”

Go read Richard Dawkin’s new article where he convinced himself his chatbot was sentient because it told him he asked the most intelligent questions of anyone on earth. Or look up the direct studies on the cognitive harm being caused, hey, for the time being AI can probably even help collate them for you

It harms you in the form of directly causing cognitive decline.

Just look at the way you have advocated for it within this very comment. You argue that it’s a valid “pressure release valve”, an avenue to seek solutions when you are otherwise frustrated.

Those moments, the ones where you have seemingly exhausted all possibilities, are the ones where your mind starts working. You are training yourself to interrupt the process. You can tell yourself this story about how you attempted to make an effort first, but the truth is your patience for that will get smaller every day.

And then what’s the plan? Why would I hire someone who is ultimately totally interchangeable with all the other prompters who can only forward what AI told them? Why would I give you a raise when I could just replace you with someone equally capable of reading off “AI solutions”?

Where are these “better employers” who will “probably” save you going to come from, and why would they bother? Is that assessment based on anything in particular? Why go to bat like this over something you can only call “mostly okay” for particularly small tasks?

That’s like saying getting injured in a car accident empowered you because it taught you humility.

Like props on finding the silver lining but it is objectively not a good thing for you and you shouldn’t view the event with gratitude

Nor does it realize the oil in the bottle needs to reach the hole before it will come out

what the fuck do they have left?

Lots of things! Wellness farms, military readiness camps, factory labor. The possibilities are endless!

Hey can we actually start spreading this around? I have this amazing mental image of some self proclaimed alpha male type trying to get on my right side to talk down to me but I just keep rotating in place so he ends up circling me like a little puppy

Thanks, yeah the whole introduction of the article is quite misleading

Why even have the maps with you when you’re going out drinking?

Edit: the reason he got hammered was because he was stuck in a six hour long military dinner event lol.

As for why he had the maps, despite us all reading the summary the same way, the “and” in “lost maps on train and got concussion after drinking” is actually being used to delineate two entirely unrelated events

Whoops! Big mistake buddy, you said something on the internet. Now we’re gonna fight! I miss balled mice. How ‘bout them apples? Nothing is as satisfying as cleaning the lint out of those things was

Well, my assumption is that someday soon, all the people of the world will take a step back and realize that the endless cycle of war is ultimately meaningless; that the cruelty and suffering can end, and we can finally step forward into an era of compassion for one another

Hiii so basically they fired everyone in the administration who said “Iran will curb stomp the US for many reasons, so like, don’t start a war with them” and then decided to start a war with them

One of the many reasons is that Iran preeeeety much has unilateral control over this extremely interesting geographic feature called “The Straight of Hormuz” which has been one of the most important strategic chokepoints in the world for literally thousands of years. Right at the moment the big thing it’s choking is some crazy number like 20% of the entire oil and natural gas supply for the entire planet earth.

So naturally the first thing that is already happening is gas prices skyrocketing. Of note: the way they’re controlling the straight is with missiles. So we’re also seeing extreme amounts of environmental destruction from the tankers that have exploded

What’s gonna happen long term is anyone’s guess

Lol honestly it took me a second, especially with the HUGE post just two comments down detailing the whole situation and calling you a koolaid drinker. But yeah the entire situation is just so incredulous

My animal instincts are telling me this is a silkpost