And plus, yeah people over sixty are gonna have trouble with technology, wanna know why? Because a lot of the technology that we have today either didn’t exist back then or was used in different ways and formats back then. It’s sort of like using something one way for your entire life only to discover that they changed the way you use it and now you have to relearn muscle memory
I'm a bit over 60, and I recently replaced the surface-mount power jack on my laptop's motherboard and hardwired a home theater system. And then there are times when I'm just as you described, or worse. Golly, it's almost like we're all individual people with varying levels of knowledge and abilities. What a bizarre concept!
The only thing making people "brain dead" is social media, and Reddit is right up there among the worst.
I’ve never understood this explanation tbh. Boomers have been alive for every significant advancement of computers, phones, television, etc so they’ve had the privilege of learning these technologies as they incrementally improve. I would think someone who’s 60 would understand how a computer works way better than a teenager because they were alive when computers were way less easy to use and required you to have a way stronger knowledge of the OS, whereas the teenager would be the one who need to be told which buttons to click for every use case and wouldn’t know what to do if something wasn’t working. In my experience with boomers, they vehemently refuse to even try to learn how new technology works which is 100% an attitude problem.
I would think someone who’s 60 would understand how a computer works way better than a teenager because they were alive when computers were way less easy to use and required you to have a way stronger knowledge of the OS,
Well anyone over 60 in that country has been doing the tap or chip to pay for the last 20 years so they already know…I am sure there was a learning curve. Banking in the USA is a bit behind because they don’t engage in real competition
Tourist wise, beside the age thing, Americans and English in second place are quite oblivious, no idea why
Uhh, isn’t it considered a nice thing to help out seniors in virtually all cultures? This guy just sounds like a douche that doesn’t like helping the elderly.
Seriously. We have plenty of old Korean grannies in the area who don’t know how to use tap to pay. Instead of being a dick and assuming they’re idiots, I smile when they either insert their card or hand it to me
It is, but after a while you just start running into empathy/compassion fatigue, especially with white Boomers in the US. I've worked in customer facing positions for about a decade, and consistently I want to say that about 90% of problem customers are going to be older white people. They will literally try to make every single thing your problem, and they are by far the most entitled. I could literally sit down and write a book about interactions I've had with Boomer customers, between them asking coworkers of mine to put popcorn straight out of the popper into their bare hand to sample it and then getting angry when we told them that we don't offer free samples and asking how that was a free sample, to a guy who forgot that he bought a door and got angry at me that he paid for the door, to a guy and his wife who clearly almost never left the house and this guy was trying to have a conversation with me as though it was going to be the only social interaction he was going to have for the rest of the year and his wife was like hitting him to get him to leave. It's very hard to continue to look on a group with respect when it's very clear they are victims of their own entitlement and stupidity and relish in it because that is all they have going for them. I want to make it very clear that not all old people are like this, but a sizable chunk are.
Terrified in the sense they can’t use it, or terrified in the sense of the potential ramifications of AI? The former should be laughed at, the latter is completely valid.
Yeah, I mean from an algorithmic sense it is doing just that, but in the literal sense it isn't. It does "steal" from people (or actually does steal in the case of OpenAI) by mining the data and reusing it, but it's more complex than just mixing things around
Depends on how you define stealing, screenshoting and using someone's art as a reference has never been considered stealing and that is essentially all that AI models so
They don't Photoshop snippets from peoples art or outright copy and paste it. It learns patterns and concepts for it to understand what something is
If you ask for a black dog it doesn't just copy a picture of a black dog. It learned what the color black is and what a dog is and applied both patterns into its output
I mean violating intellectual property when I say steal. When you upload your content onto Twitter or YouTube then they aren't stealing your content since you gave it to them. But OpenAI, for example, goes through pirate internet archives and uses that data without permission
Wannabe smart people especially really seem to have an issue with AI. They either mock it when they give a vague prompt and the answer is not perfect or they get upset when it actually gives a pretty good answer.
i think there are serious concerns regarding the death of critical thinking and data center’s environmental impacts but as the days go by i realize i’m probably gonna have to live with this
i also wasn’t around before smartphones so idk if that’s comparable
It's really not that impactful on the environment, the issue is people continue to vilify nuclear energy, if we made the switch energy would essentially be free
Redscarepod is cheating. The entire sub is ~40 year old catmoms on the 20th year of nursing their cocktail addictions who are perpetually stuck in the mindset they entered during their first year as an art history major, hoping that revolutionary Marxism will one day liberate them from their empty, expensive metropolitan lifestyles and superfluous spending habits.
They have an inherent hatred for anything that you couldn’t pull out of a fashion blog or an entry level literary class.
The podcast itself? It was a “dirtbag left” podcast but has changed a bit as the girls on it have aged and their lives have changed. They’ve had conservative and right wing guests as far as I know and that makes some people angry.
Nobody on the sub listens to the pod- they just gossip about it, among other things
EDIT: but to be fair, it’s a paid podcast and that’s why I rarely listened either. A friend who subbed used to send me episodes long ago and eventually stopped- I would never pay to listen to anything.
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“Anybody over 60”
Is the average American over 60?
And plus, yeah people over sixty are gonna have trouble with technology, wanna know why? Because a lot of the technology that we have today either didn’t exist back then or was used in different ways and formats back then. It’s sort of like using something one way for your entire life only to discover that they changed the way you use it and now you have to relearn muscle memory
I am well under 60, but I sometimes ask stupid questions just so I can make sure I am doing things correctly, or because I am a bit nervous.
I'm a bit over 60, and I recently replaced the surface-mount power jack on my laptop's motherboard and hardwired a home theater system. And then there are times when I'm just as you described, or worse. Golly, it's almost like we're all individual people with varying levels of knowledge and abilities. What a bizarre concept!
The only thing making people "brain dead" is social media, and Reddit is right up there among the worst.
I’ve never understood this explanation tbh. Boomers have been alive for every significant advancement of computers, phones, television, etc so they’ve had the privilege of learning these technologies as they incrementally improve. I would think someone who’s 60 would understand how a computer works way better than a teenager because they were alive when computers were way less easy to use and required you to have a way stronger knowledge of the OS, whereas the teenager would be the one who need to be told which buttons to click for every use case and wouldn’t know what to do if something wasn’t working. In my experience with boomers, they vehemently refuse to even try to learn how new technology works which is 100% an attitude problem.
They were also significantly less common or required for work until the 90s. Even as late as 1997, PC ownership still hadn't broken 40% in America [PDF].
Also, being good with prior tech advances isn't much help when you're older and physically cannot learn as well.
It's boomers being boomers. They're like this anywhere you go, not only the USA.
Well anyone over 60 in that country has been doing the tap or chip to pay for the last 20 years so they already know…I am sure there was a learning curve. Banking in the USA is a bit behind because they don’t engage in real competition
Tourist wise, beside the age thing, Americans and English in second place are quite oblivious, no idea why
Uhh, isn’t it considered a nice thing to help out seniors in virtually all cultures? This guy just sounds like a douche that doesn’t like helping the elderly.
Seriously. We have plenty of old Korean grannies in the area who don’t know how to use tap to pay. Instead of being a dick and assuming they’re idiots, I smile when they either insert their card or hand it to me
In a lot of European cultures, it’s distinctly rude to even say “hello” to a stranger
It is, but after a while you just start running into empathy/compassion fatigue, especially with white Boomers in the US. I've worked in customer facing positions for about a decade, and consistently I want to say that about 90% of problem customers are going to be older white people. They will literally try to make every single thing your problem, and they are by far the most entitled. I could literally sit down and write a book about interactions I've had with Boomer customers, between them asking coworkers of mine to put popcorn straight out of the popper into their bare hand to sample it and then getting angry when we told them that we don't offer free samples and asking how that was a free sample, to a guy who forgot that he bought a door and got angry at me that he paid for the door, to a guy and his wife who clearly almost never left the house and this guy was trying to have a conversation with me as though it was going to be the only social interaction he was going to have for the rest of the year and his wife was like hitting him to get him to leave. It's very hard to continue to look on a group with respect when it's very clear they are victims of their own entitlement and stupidity and relish in it because that is all they have going for them. I want to make it very clear that not all old people are like this, but a sizable chunk are.
I am 100% more fatigued by people like you, than old people who have trouble with tap to pay.
"I work at a park".
Check out the big brain on park worker over here.
Seriously. We’re dealing with some kind of genius
"Seniors don't know how to use the card reader haha hahahahahahahaha"
-Says the 19 year old Redditor who is literally terrified of Google Gemini
Terrified in the sense they can’t use it, or terrified in the sense of the potential ramifications of AI? The former should be laughed at, the latter is completely valid.
Both honestly
Redditors still think AI is just cutting snippets of other people's art and Frankensteining it together
So yeah clearly they don't use it nor know how to
Yeah, I mean from an algorithmic sense it is doing just that, but in the literal sense it isn't. It does "steal" from people (or actually does steal in the case of OpenAI) by mining the data and reusing it, but it's more complex than just mixing things around
Depends on how you define stealing, screenshoting and using someone's art as a reference has never been considered stealing and that is essentially all that AI models so
They don't Photoshop snippets from peoples art or outright copy and paste it. It learns patterns and concepts for it to understand what something is
If you ask for a black dog it doesn't just copy a picture of a black dog. It learned what the color black is and what a dog is and applied both patterns into its output
I mean violating intellectual property when I say steal. When you upload your content onto Twitter or YouTube then they aren't stealing your content since you gave it to them. But OpenAI, for example, goes through pirate internet archives and uses that data without permission
Fair enough on that one
Although on the topic of intellectual property it's funny that Disney now gives OpenAI permission to use their IP
And artists are furious over it
Wannabe smart people especially really seem to have an issue with AI. They either mock it when they give a vague prompt and the answer is not perfect or they get upset when it actually gives a pretty good answer.
i think there are serious concerns regarding the death of critical thinking and data center’s environmental impacts but as the days go by i realize i’m probably gonna have to live with this
i also wasn’t around before smartphones so idk if that’s comparable
It's really not that impactful on the environment, the issue is people continue to vilify nuclear energy, if we made the switch energy would essentially be free
I do wonder what it's going to do to the job market. We're already having issues with people finding work as is.
This just in ! Old people refuse to learn something new tom . More at 11
Redscarepod is cheating. The entire sub is ~40 year old catmoms on the 20th year of nursing their cocktail addictions who are perpetually stuck in the mindset they entered during their first year as an art history major, hoping that revolutionary Marxism will one day liberate them from their empty, expensive metropolitan lifestyles and superfluous spending habits.
They have an inherent hatred for anything that you couldn’t pull out of a fashion blog or an entry level literary class.
Isn’t it more of a fascist podcast?
The podcast itself? It was a “dirtbag left” podcast but has changed a bit as the girls on it have aged and their lives have changed. They’ve had conservative and right wing guests as far as I know and that makes some people angry.
Nobody on the sub listens to the pod- they just gossip about it, among other things
EDIT: but to be fair, it’s a paid podcast and that’s why I rarely listened either. A friend who subbed used to send me episodes long ago and eventually stopped- I would never pay to listen to anything.
I'm close to that age and have been working in tech probably since your mother was on elementary school. Gfy.
thats just boomers. they do not represent the average american
This is extremely true though lol
To be fair it's the boomers