• qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website
    1·
    9 months ago

    Cycling? Great, increased funding for infrastructure and increased general awareness. Amateur radio? Lower prices for rigs, innovation, and more contacts to be made.

    If your interest in a hobby is based on its exclusivity, it may be that you’re more interested in exclusivity than in the hobby itself…

    • AdmiralShat@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      It’s not that some hobbies are based on exclusivity or even some other hipster rationalization, but there definitely is a period where a shit load of new people come in, read half a wiki page, then proceed to argue and talk down to people who have been at it for years. It ruins communities if the audience widens too much at once. I’ve been online long enough to have seen it happen multiple times.

  • imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee
    5·
    9 months ago

    That’s not an insult it’s a curse

    Insult:

    Your elevator doesn’t quite go all the way up.

    You have all the creativity and emotional intelligence of a manager

  • Cosmicomical@lemmy.world
    31·
    9 months ago

    This happened to me. I was really really into AI when nobody even knew what it meant if not for hal, skynet and matrix, and now everybody talks of llms like they even know what the f they are.

    • thantik@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      Nah, nobody talks about LLMs. If I approached an average, everyday person about this topic, 99% of them wouldn’t know shit about it, while the tech-nerds all would.

      It’s not mainstream at alllll yet. I introduced a pair of people I game with to openai/gpt3.5 like…a week ago and they were absolutely beside themselves using it.

      • Cosmicomical@lemmy.world
        11·
        9 months ago

        What I mean is that “back in my day” there were maybe 10 people in the world seriously investigating strong AI

        • Richard@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          9 months ago

          That’s unlikely. What’s more likely is that you were not yet exposed to AI research and did not read through the academic reviews and articles of the time. AI is a serious topic in science and engineering since more than half a century.

          • Cosmicomical@lemmy.world
            01·
            9 months ago

            I was reading papers daily, and there was progress but even in the field of symbolic ai the focus was on weak ai, a range of approaches that try to solve single problems. They were trying to find marketable techniques, not looking for the sparkle of intelligence. Then big data came and people started specialising in techniques that were also useful for ml, and boom.

  • Infynis@midwest.socialEnglish
    0·
    9 months ago

    I would love for my hobbies to be more mainstream. More merch, more people to share the experience with, and presumably more content

    • shikitohno@lemmy.world
      1·
      9 months ago

      This works up to a certain size, then you start having to contend with more shameless money grabs, scalpers catching wind of things and making it impossible for actual fans/users of the product to get stuff for a reasonable price and more scammers.

  • the_grass_trainer@lemmy.world
    1·
    9 months ago

    Refer to someone you’ve never met by their name if you can. This usually works best in a school or work setting. And when they ask how you know their name just simply reply:

    “Everyone knows who you are.” And walk away.

    • BleatingZombie@lemmy.world
      1·
      9 months ago

      Not to mention the fact that it’s (sort-of) taking materials that were attempted to be destined for the less fortunate