reminds me of a story:
Got invited to a dinner party of people I didn’t know well, they were friends of my then girlfriend.
So we were sitting around before dinner chatting and drinking and I brought up a question about something that we were all talking about. I don’t remember what it was but the point was just to keep conversation going and to interact with people. BUT one lady just looked at me and said “why don’t you just Google it?!” Shut down conversation completely.
Sure I could Google it Karen but that doesn’t make for good conversation!
Let’s all stay ignorant to kill time!
Great story.
“I would like to be a human and have a conversation with another human”
Great news then, AI voice models are now incredibly humanlike!
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Yea this is common knowledge, why is this being posted?
Unfortunately there’s also a significant chance that you might just be lazy and value your own time more than mine, so how about we meet in the middle and you try googling it first and then ask me to explain the part(s) you didn’t understand?
Same goes for people that respond “just google it” to online questions on social media. It’s about the conversation, ya dinks.
That but also googling isn’t that easy for some questions (especially for those who don’t know how to google well).
For instance you lost the name of something, and let’s say it’s something niche…
I love how language ai can now help with that.
Yeah once I found these balls on my porch that kinda looked like frog eggs but where too small and not blonde together like frog eggs and at that kind of situation what do you even put in the search bar and reverse image searches only gave me pictures of frog eggs only when I made the post on Lemmy that I found out what chia seeds look like and that’s what I was looking at
I’m like this. I’d rather talk to someone about things than look them up. It’s ok if people don’t have time for it, but people who snarkily tell you to “just Google it” are just being rude and missing the point. Obviously I could just Google it, but I’d rather talk to someone about it. That’s why I asked.
Majority of people don’t have this mindset and just want to be spoon fed answers without doing a shred of work themselves.
People don’t properly phrase their question to give the impression you’d want a conversation and instead ask basic questions, don’t reply when they get replies and never engage with the community.
Provide your knowledge and steps you did to get there and ways it stopped working, steps you’ve tried to resolve…then inquire. People skip all that and just inquire.
