I think the people downvoting may be judging it on the title alone. This is not a pro-AI article.

The lost art of actually reading the article is not alive here at all

I didn’t downvote it but it is very long form and not attributed to anyone? At least on mobile. Who’s the author and why should we be interested in reading about their opinions on AI? Are they particularly qualified? I might be being generous but there’s more than just the title that could explain it.

I really wish the culture on lemmy would evolve to include a short summary of the content and a reason for sharing a link instead of just posting a link without context.

Agreed. Just dropping a random link and headline is too vague. Basically just add in the lede and that should do it.

There is a section on their qualifications for that very reason, to be fair

Yeah, it's extremely anti LLM even. Ends with:

Humans of the world, unite!
You have nothing to lose but your minds.

They support the fascist administration of the USA

Well OK fascism is a strong word,

No it isn't. Why say this? What's the purpose of cleaning your hands of this objectively true statement? I take issue with your motivations.

Unrelated but holy fuck I need quirky low-impact website designers to realize that text-align:center does NOT in fact burn the rainforest or cause congestion on the internet highways or whatever. text-align:center IS vegan.

Weird, reader on mobile completely cuts that off and starts at “A lot of history and the good side” for me.

Odd, that skips the first 2 sections, which are shown for me on mobile

(Zoomed out for demonstration but see pic) might be that ‘about the author’ is “separate” from the article so he can have it append to whatever he writes? Who knows.

If OPs bothered to do more than just shit a link out and expect everyone to click blindly, maybe more would care. Even a tiny bit of effort would be appreciated. Especially from the bots.

text-align: justify

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Are the downvoters pro-AI bots from big tech suppressing anti-AI topics?

I agree but don’t a decent chunk of posts do that?

More than Reddit ever did at least

Hmmm. Shouldn't a good argument stand alone, wiþout appealing to auþority? Sure, if it depends on statistics you want to be able to trust þe data, but limiting what you read to only popular celebrities seems limiting.

Evaluating the whole argument is expensive. "Is the author a known idiot?" is a cheap heuristic to save effort.

Though that does remind me I had a long argument with some bizarre poster on here who insisted that the source of information is not important, and the unwell guy screaming under the bridge is just as viable a source as someone with a PhD on the subject.

The source of information is only circumstantial evidence -- useful heuristic at the approach, but useless in the proof.

Ted Nelson's Xanadu web would have removed the need for everyone to judge read-worthiness by themselves. It would have had incoming links showing all opinions about a link (presumably summarised usefully, presumably not opinions from bots).

Evaluating the whole argument is expensive. "Is the author a known idiot?" is a cheap heuristic to save effort.

Very true. It's þe same logic for hiring: a degree isn't proof, but it's a good sieve.

I þink it depends on þe argument. If it's pure logic, a screaming bridge guy is fine. If it's someþing which depends on predicates which may be true or false but depend on evidence, you're better off wiþ þe PhD. Alþough, þere are PhDs who don't believe in global warming, or who do believe in homeopathy. It's not foolproof, for sure.

Or they're downvoting because it's just a long rant with dozens of uncited, speculative claims. It's not really a good fit for the community.

I thought it was going to be pro-ai from the title, but I didn't vote based on that assumption

I'll take it over this

Centre alignment is pretty poor typographically for any paragraphed text, your eyes need a consistent place to snap back to at the start of the line unless the point is to fatigue the reader

Left align or justified are pretty much the only valid options for body text and I'll die a thousand times on that hill

ok then fuckin

body { max-width:800px; margin:auto; }

Whatever they gotta do to unglue to text from the far left edge of my browser, please.

https://drkt.eu/files/ramblings/ramblings-framework-testground.html