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Posted by tokenburner 11 hours ago

They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker(github.com)
271 points | 91 commentspage 2
deng 6 hours ago|
Oh the irony: "They Live", a movie famously about alienation and dehumanization, and you let AI do all the coding.
xnx 6 hours ago||
Interacting with a computer in natural language is much more human than typing in special codes and punctuation.
deng 6 hours ago|||
So telling someone to make a table for you is more human than making it yourself, because you're using natural language instead of saws and hand planes?
GCUMstlyHarmls 5 hours ago|||
I would say yes, conversing between two humans, maybe even collaborating, is more human than a solitary human using inanimate objects.
spacebacon 3 hours ago|||
Basket weaving is more human than conversation. Language is entry level artificial man.
anthk 4 hours ago|||
Even if the table collapses down badly instead of doing a proper one with a good set of tools?
gchamonlive 1 hour ago|||
> telling someone to make a table for you is more human than making it yourself

That's a bad comparison. You have to compare crafting a table manually to doing it via CNC.

sph 1 hour ago||||
Imagine writing this comment on 2013 Hacker News with a straight face.
speed_spread 4 hours ago|||
The human world is full of special codes and obscure gestures that only have meaning if provided in the right sequence to the right people. Computer programming being documented and formalized makes it more accessible than many social circles.
gchamonlive 1 hour ago|||
Are you writing code in a computer instead of using pen and paper? Preposterous!
dang 6 hours ago||
What if it wouldn't get done otherwise?

(Genuine question as we're all trying to figure this shit out)

deng 5 hours ago|||
I think we can agree that this is not something anybody will actually use, but rather an homage to "They Live", and IMHO, letting this be done by AI is in contrast to the basic premise of the movie.
andai 4 hours ago|||
What's the premise of the movie? I thought it was about psyops.

(Also interdimensional shapeshifting reptilians.)

tokenburner 2 hours ago||||
The joke wasn't worth 10+ hours manual work
dolebirchwood 5 hours ago|||
That argument could be taken to any extreme at the end of the day. They Live, at its core, is a commentary on unrestrained capitalism. You could fault OP for using a Google browser. You could fault OP for using a Microsoft cloud repository. The line may be blurrier than one thinks...
deng 3 hours ago||
Any argument can be taken to any extreme. This is why it's a popular rhetorical tactic, called "appeal to extremes".
darkwater 3 hours ago||
So, why did you use it in this case?
deng 3 hours ago||
So you consider calling something "ironic" an extreme position? On a more general note, you will find that many people are uncomfortable with the idea that AI will replace human work, especially when it relates to art, which this project in question references.
darkwater 2 hours ago||
But there are many more tech things we take for granted that could be seen as ironic as well. I think I never saw this movie but being a young adult and an Internet nerd in the late '90s early -00s I remember perfectly how many people were negatively discussing it because it was dehumanizing, destroying personal relationships in flesh and a long etc. And while the future turned out to be not so good as some early adopter thought, it also never turned into something so bleak as detractors said it would.

And I think the same will apply here, with GenAI.

ori_b 2 hours ago||||
We'd all be better off for it. I don't want you to take a shit on the table and call it dinner. Even if you don't cook.
tokenburner 2 hours ago||||
It wouldn't have. I put this off for 11 years, the joke wasn't worth the manual effort required

AI is amazing at jumping into an unfamiliar codebase, it was probably 20 mins total work

d3ng 5 hours ago|||
I think this is false dichotomy. It's been a while since actually empowering and encouraging humans was considered normal and attempted at scale. But not that long. How quick we forget. I think it's worth getting back to.
anthk 4 hours ago||
UBo Lite pales against the original UBo, it doesn't matter if it's a cool fork.
xnx 6 hours ago||
An idea probably as old as ad blockers themselves. Here's one from 8 years ago: https://imgur.com/i-wear-sunglasses-night-uF4fy42
tokenburner 1 hour ago||
The blog post was from 2015

https://proceduralgraphics.blogspot.com/2015/04/they-live-ad...

nephihaha 3 hours ago||
"Content Not Available Content not available in your region.

"Learn more about Imgur access in the United Kingdom"

The irony!

iririririr 6 hours ago|
on the same line, but less pop meme replacements

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/artificial-cl...

it replaces terms used to exalt Artificial Intelligence to what they really mean, and some tongue in cheek jokes against things that are used to pass billionaires/tech as friendly (e.g. replacing bill gates with his actual name)

autoexec 3 hours ago||
"Automated Incompetence" is probably better than "Artificial Incompetence" since the incompetence is 100% real.
desdenova 20 minutes ago|||
A very good alternative to this vibecoded slop.
logicprog 4 hours ago||
That's so obnoxiously stupid and annoying, wow.
ares623 2 hours ago||
That's how most people feel when presented slop btw