How to do anything (without AI) - Video by Reject Convience

[Vidknight]

Alright so the title is a bit of a lie, as the video isn't really about AI (Surprise!  ), but it's moreso about the impact of failure, shame, stupidity, and kindness in life with one little mention of AI in the middle of the video. It's why this is in the Life On Earth section and not the Life On The Web section.

Personally I'm glad it's not about AI as truth be told I'm kind of sick about hearing about AI as well as the guy in the video 


As for my thoughts I don't want to give away too much since I want y'all to watch the video as I do find it really good, but personally I think he nailed down on why a lot of people use AI and LLM this fear of failure, and being shamed for not knowing anything is so common that people would rather talk to a chatbot that will be nice to them and give them the correct answer 9/10 then ask another person, this leads to a side effect where barely anybody learns anything as we always too scared to fail and learn. I want to know what y'all think though once you finish watching the video 

[tellars]

watched this video earlier today and loved it! it was very well made and i felt like i could relate to the author's story about his school and how it impacted his mental health.
im an artist and i've felt such an overwhelming sense of dread for the last 6 months because of ai, since it is literally everywhere. everyone's talking about it, it's in my phone and pc, everyone's using it and trying to make me use it - but i don't want to. the reasons why i don't want to use generative ai are so numerous and have been said by dozens of people, but the majority of those around me irl don't really understand that. and when i see another ai generated picture in a nearby store on the packaging of anything, i feel so down in the dumps. like. i know it's easier and cheaper for the companies. but i feel like we've lost the plot... we forgot that we're doing all of that for other people, for ourselves, we forgot about the importance of human connection and human culture. i would prefer to buy a slightly ugly postcard with an illustration that a human made over any ai generated post cards. i would listen to someone's poem even if it didn't rhyme well, but i will always skip ai generated text. i will always prefer human art, human work over ai, because i want to be connected to people.
our society has been pushing us into individualism for so long that people are now finally realising how lonely they are because of it and as the author said we need to combat that. to tell people that they're loved and needed, that their work is not useless, that they're not alone. i really want to see things get better and i hope that the future will be full of friends, art and love.

[Dan Q]

If you want to know how to do something, seek out others who know how to do that thing you want to know.

If you know how to do the thing, be kind and patient when showing others.

Preach! Kindness and patience is just a better way to live.

Thanks for sharing the video, @Vidknight .

[Yaya]

I watched this earlier too and found it really interesting! The parts about shame really stuck with me. I agree that shame is such a damaging tool. It doesn’t motivate, it just makes people smaller and more afraid to try, and I don’t think it ever really leads to learning or growth in a healthy way. I also liked what he said about not seeing yourself as dumb, and how that fear pushes people toward AI doing the work for them instead of letting themselves be bad at something first.

One place where I felt a little differently was around technology versus human interaction. For me it feels less like an either-or. For example, I used a dumbphone during grad school so I could focus better, and that helped a lot. I felt more present day to day. But I still listened to music on public transit or while running errands sometimes, and that didn’t feel like a loss of connection to me. I can still be kind, make space for others, have small moments of politeness, while also enjoying my headphones. Especially in a place like NYC, that live-and-let-live balance actually helps me feel more like myself rather than less connected.

Sometimes I wonder if that kind of solitude is isolating, but it doesn’t really feel that way in practice. If I’m just grabbing eggs and don’t feel like talking, that seems fine to me. I’ll still let someone with one item go ahead of me and still show basic care. Those things can coexist.

I do really agree with him about making AI optional, though. I hate how it’s being built into everything by default. Search engines, phones, services. Even when you can turn it off, it’s frustrating that opting out takes effort. I feel similarly about social media and smartphones in general. I wish the world were more friendly to opting out, both from algorithmic-based social media, and technology in general. Overall, I really liked the video and appreciated how it framed these issues with more compassion than fear. Thank you for sharing!