Just remember that machines already do most of the work. Nobody ploughs fields anymore.
Ah what a chore. Other human beings. Wish I could just enter into a cocoon of solitude for the rest of my life. I mean I'm kind of being glib here but the ~amazing future~ we all seem to take as inevitable has me playing solo orchestra conductor, prompt pupettering a massive fleet of hyper intelligent code bots, prompting an AI to make prompts for its sub AIs in a giant scintillating cyberprism. Talking to an AI customer service agent. Having an AI secretary. Having an AI lover.
All alone, in the middle of it all.
Sorry, I actually like talking to my real human colleagues!
AI/the Internet will never fill the void, and they know it, but like an addict they demand more in the hopes that it will. The AI girlfriend won't be enough, they'll be told to wait for AI girlfriend 2.0 to _really_ experience love. Being played for a fool long enough makes anyone jaded and cynical.
Fuck this AI shit. I will not smile and hype up something that promises to take away the liberties of my children when they grow up. Because that is what they promise, a future where my children, and other children that grow up with them, will have no jobs. At the very least, I can look my kids in the eye when they ask me what the fuck happened, and tell them I did not smile and welcome it.
"Yes, we're starving and homeless now. But for a beautiful moment in time, I was able to open 20 PRs in one day."
I am all up for AI if it leads to "better" work and jobs but cutting jobs to cut cost sound like a race to bottom!!
Are AI time /cost savings going to help me pursue creative hobbies, open source, help my community without worrying about livelihood then great. If it is a means to make rich people richer by making most of us worse off, maybe we should stop and think for a while?
There may be a risk here that a zero/negative-sum game is advertised as a positive-sum game (e.g war).
One of the issues with [a change] is that some like it and some don't - but is there any reason to believe that society will get worse as a result?
My only real concern is meritocracy. It is hard enough already, but now rich kids can literally buy intelligence?