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Thank god they can do it now! I'm willing to add thousands more to my bills, I'm sure AGI is around the corner and will make life so much easier.

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You don't need AGI. If AI progress stopped right now, LLMs would still be amazing and extremely useful technology. It already makes life for many much easier. But it's easy to miss it when you are entombed in anti-AI bubble. But I've got something that may placate your fears - remember that horses did not vote.

It’s certainly easier to have a computer do all the thinking for you.

If current LLM can do all the thinking for you then I'm terribly sorry. I use it mostly to do the boring and tedious tasks.

it definitely is if you were stupid to begin with

LLMs are a weird phenomenon. as always as of late, the sci-fi predictions are outdone by reality. Idiocracy seems cute.

> You don't need AGI. If AI progress stopped right now, LLMs would still be amazing and extremely useful technology. It already makes life for many much easier.

No? I don’t? Because that’s the bright future they’re trying to sell, after they kick you out on the street.

> But I've got something that may placate your fears - remember that horses did not vote.

Neither did serfs. And that’s what they’re trying to establish. Also, very generous of you to believe that anyone outside of the tech bubble, or hell that majority INSIDE of the tech bubble, will lift a finger to defend the tech workers. Just look at how controversial a simple topic like work union is. It’s dog eat dog out there, and tech feudal lords know that they can just buy the most vocal ones.

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