After a while, It turned out that none of these mattered. And I am back to paper books..

You don't.

Computers also was one of them. But modern media boxes are not exciting. Microcontrollers though, are still exciting.

That does not mean bad-stuff has become good-stuff.

I think a problem with AI generated stuff is that it is the stuff targeted at a consumers. I don't want stuff targeted at me. I want stuff targeted at the creator themselves. I mean, I want stuff that created by someone who likes their own creation. And AI can never do that because AI cannot "like". This is not exclusive to AI. If a person creates something just for the sake of money, then I am not going to give the material my attention.

With a human, you never know. But with AI, you know for sure that the material has been created to push your buttons.

And since we don't like mysteries, we say that there is a "particle" there with so and so properties..

Well, the alternative is to have a competent (debatable..) execution of a rotten ideology...

And to understand this thought is to go into the other twilight zone where "vaccine" is a single thing with a single composition with only a single set of properties and effects on the organism.

It is more like, "If no human before me has encountered it and thought it worth writing down, I, another human, don't want to take chances with reading it".

It is when there is too much stupidity going on that

* Even large number of fairly average people can see it happening...

* large number of fairly average people tries to correct it and overshoots the target, because you know, they are a large number of average people..

The cycle continues...

I won't go into specifics, because read the above.

"science" is the new religion. You just need to give it time to live upto its potential. It is not too far fetched to imagine mass killings based on science when one side is seen as "risking lives" (because "science" says so) of the other.

>I believe things that have evidence to support them.

You believe that because you think that will lead to a better outcome for you. But sometimes when every individual does that, it will hurt the group/society, and thus ultimately result in bad outcome for you. Corruption is a good example. Human beings generally does not have the ability to see the big, long term picture and act on it. Which is where religion come. To provide reason and incentive to act in a way that is beneficial long term...

That is the thing I am mad about. We are getting bastardized versions of the science fictions of our childhood.

I fantasized about instant communicators across worlds, and we get mobile phones that work by planting a gazillion antennas across the globe. And people hail them as futuristic and say things like this.

I fantasied about human like robots and positronic brains, and we get a regurgitation of past humanity, in text, ensuring a future of total intellectual and artistic winter.

I fantasized a future with perfect health, but we get a million doctors and hospitals and a normalised dependency on medicines and an existence that is unthinkable without health insurance!

I fantasized about antigravity flying cars, and we get drones.

What ever it is, these things are blocking the path to the science fiction of my childhood.

So that is why I am not excited about these things. Not because I don't like computers and technology, but because I REALLY like them.

Don't leave us hanging, let us know what was this software for?

A hidden metric here is the number of new bugs created by these fixes. If an LLM creates 10x bugs but create 5x more new bugs, then it is not really an improvement. Because that is 5x more bugs that the user has to observe and report (unless it is a security vulnerability, which the LLMs might detect) before it can be fixed.

But we all have to act as if it is not!