I'm supposed to be writing a @holozing post but been delaying getting to it, I'm still kind of stuck on coming up with creature names for our new reveals which is quite a process in and of itself.
The year is almost over, wow. I'm not sure how I feel about this year. It's been, well, weird. It some how also feels like it's only gonna keep getting weirder.
AI. I'm somehow excited about this considering the speed of things and having to deal with humans on some technical aspects has proven harder and to take longer than I originally thought. This isn't to say it's their fault, maybe some times depending on how they go about things, but, things always take way longer than expected yet time is moving faster. I kind of wish I was 20 years younger again where an hour felt like eternity when I was stuck in school, can't even imagine what I could do on Hive with that hour back then cause right now that hour is definitely not the same and you can't convince me it is.
So I'm somehow hopeful that AI will assist on getting my ideas into reality faster and cheaper in the future but at the same time I'm also scared of what else it'll be able to do.
A random lab that leaked a virus half a decade ago changed the world forever and killed a ton of people.
Now we're giving the power to create your own lab to anyone as long as they own a few GPU's?
It's kind of like bitcoin mining but the block reward can be an infection that'll wipe out the whole world in the wrong hands.
I'm sure I'm overreacting, but still.
When I initially thought about AI I thought back to the movie "her", but instead of a "her" I was looking forward to a friend who I'd host locally and tell it everything about me and have him monitor all I do. Kind of like human's best friend that sits next to you watching you do things, but instead the AI would also understand everything you're doing and maybe come to understand you as a person.
Ever had a really good friend? Where things just clicked and it kind of made you sad you lost touch over the years as life came in the way?
Imagine that friend but he's 1000x better cause he knows what to tell you when and how. What to show you that you're interested in, what you tell him and what he says back to keep the jokes going.
I still have a few friends like that and those things come in waves some times where you're on a roll joking about something and keep the laughter going, maybe the AI won't know that those things work because they come rarely and will try to overdo it.
I don't know. It's all getting a bit weird. We might be moving towards a future similar to the Wall-E universe, I know my body is at least halfway there.
It's been a tiring year. I know if I bothered to go out and do a bit of exercise, I'd feel less tired, which is quite a paradox in and of itself. It'd also help with mental tiredness which I think I've suffered from lately. Along with a lot of things needing my attention all the time compared with things that don't require my focus much but need to be done.
I should get more involved with AI, people have been recommending and telling me to let it help, but I'm still sticking to the "manual" stubborn focus I started a decade ago on this chain.
Fuck, it's almost been 10 years of this chain.
Dunno.
I don't wanna sound too depressing but I'm kind of glad this year is over.
I wanna be more excited and hoping things will turn around for the better but the world is making it hard. I'm not even talking hive stuff necessarily in this case, it's just, why can't we all just get along? What is this constant need for more? What are you gonna do with it? Some people criticise Billie Eilish for what she told Musk recently but fuck it she's not wrong. Unless he's really thinking of the greater picture and planning on spending his trillion on space exploration and colonisation, then what is the point of all that wealth? He makes it hard to believe he has the greater good at heart yet everyone wants to be like him, or at least earn more even if it means majority of others will suffer.
We keep being told how AI will help humanity but few mention the negatives that can come from it.
If history has taught us anything it's to not believe the promises.
I should go back to sleep.
Had a 21h waken bender yesterday and only slept like 6 hours or so while I kept waking up a few times during it. Times are weird.
If i don't post again before the new year, happy new year, hope things start becoming better soon else I'm probably done trying.
It's alright to rest. We all get tired at some point. As for AI, it is a tool which we can use for good or bad, still we humans are better companions than a robot. The only reason we would choose AI as a companion would be because if we don't program hate, anger, pride and getting offended easily in it + all the rest of the 7 Deadly Sins then it will seem like the "perfect friend". We will never grow with such a friend. Anyway happy holidays and hope you feel better by the new year!
Yeah, but it is also evolving fast, I'm kind of laying off for now until I'm forced to use it I feel like - eve though that time has probably already passed and I should be using it.
Humans are complicated, we've seen how they act/change/react to actions here on chain. Honestly i could see a universe where AI would help us grow more/better but it's hard to understand what that growth would mean or what it would lack compared to the one with humans.
I hope hive sticks to mostly human interactions cause it'd be sad if this place also turns into the dead Internet theory as others are already starting to become.
Thanks for reading and the wishes, likewise!
I hope the new year brings you rest and creativity!
As for naming creatures, why not show the fans and have us try to come up with names? Even if you don't end up using any of the names it might help spark something.
The whole AI friend thing worries me on some level. I don't think people should be monitored 24/7 unless there's some medical reason. I've also been watching the stuff where people use AI like a therapist and the results are worrying. AI friends never challenge the user the way an actual therapist or even a human friend would. It gives excuses for terrible behaviour and reinforces destructive thought patterns. Perhaps if an AI was trained by therapists the results would be better, but as it stands yeah... it bad. AI offering to write suicide notes is bad.
Also Elon Musk is a trash human being.
Anyway, I hope you get some good rest. Being sleep deprived is no good.
I was just today watching a video on recent brain science, showing that aerobic fitness that raises you heart rate and causes sweating, that it raises cognitive capacity, raises mood, increases memory retention. basically sweat = self optimizing
Fuck AI. I choose sweat
Happy New Year…may you find much thrive in ‘26
Yeah man I need to get into some better habits and stop tunnelvisioning on a few things here. Happy new year to u and the family!
Can't spell thrive without hive!
Heh not really price related but I'm sure it's had its own impact whether I like it or not. Managed to snag up some cheap hive recently though so that brought some "joy" I guess.
Happy New Year! There's still hope, my friend. There are many good people. And this year, 2025, will be very good.
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Pause, take rest to reset, and refresh yourself - it's normal to get tired, when there is too much to take care, I have been going through a similar situation, getting exhausted, but we have to remind ourselves to remember the moments that make life worth waking up for and my friends have been helping a lot to bring back all the positive energies, Happy New Year in advance.
The main problem I see with ai is that it's bringing lazyness, use less your brain so generations will become dumber and dumber, until a point where human life will just be sit in the sofa from birth to death? And ai and robots move around the world and just feed us?
Or everything will just collapse and we will just go back to stone age? A nuke war isn't to esclude either...
Happy new year!
"hope things start becoming better soon else I'm probably done trying." Hey friend, I was about to downvote you for this 😂
Stay calm. There will be more difficulties, yes, but with perseverance we will succeed!
You can do it, you deserve it. I wish you creativity and strength to thrive in the New Year.🥂🚀
In my country they say that whoever gets tired loses. You can't get tired of doing what you do. Hive is valuable, unique, and it's wonderful to be here. And we need users like you. I think you're great and a good person.☺️
Ahhh, and I wish you a happy 2026!
Before A.I. helps humanity, it might burn the world first. We're wasting too many resources for such a little return, maybe aside from the big tech, as they see it as a means to cut on labor costs. Even now, it mostly hurts people driving the price of GPUs and RAM for AI training.
Don't get discouraged, my friend. Let's keep going, with or without AI, with or without Elosk Musk, we have something big here in Hive. Let's keep building it. This new year will be full of triumphs.
I think 2025 fell short of a lot of expectations. It will be nice to put it behind us and focus on what 2026 has to bring.
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