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It's made my life way better. I love it, it's incredible boost on my ability to learn and produce.

Don't know anyone who's life was made worse by it, and I strongly doubt you do either.

Remember when people said open-sourcing GPT2 would cause world destruction? They keep saying this with every new model release? And it keeps not happening? Hmm.

This is all FUD. All evidence suggests more AI is better, and all claims to the contrary keep being proven wrong, and all predictions of doom keep refusing to manifest.

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> Don't know anyone who's life was made worse by it, and I strongly doubt you do either.

I do: students who use it to do their thinking for them.

And everyone who uses it to do their thinking for them, for that matter.

Like calculators do math for you?

It’s a tool like any other. If that’s how they use it, those students weren’t doing much thinking before either.

Once you grok a process, like addition, then the calculator is not a loss.

So once you grok programming, debugging, and software engineering, then using the AI is not a loss.

But students aren't doing that for the latter if they just punt to AI.

> Don't know anyone who's life was made worse by it, and I strongly doubt you do either.

Have you tried using a search engine lately, or visiting a social media platform, or buying a computer/smartphone?

I have and, Microsoft aside, it all works great. Don't need search engines anymore, AI does all my research now and produces better information anyway.

If you say so!

Are you living with your head under a rock. AI has absolutely made my life worse, and is set to do so further. I know very few people who are seriously enthusiastic about it.

"All evidence suggests more AI is better" is ignoring an awful lot of the evidence, and the doom is already happening all around you and you just can't see it.

Really don't understand this sentiment. Whatever you imagine you can now build; whatever you wish to learn you can learn; all for virtually nothing. How does that make life worse?

I think pessimism clouds your judgment and AI is the scapegoat. Doomerism is just yet another dogmatic religion predicting ends times, with all the usual associated dogma.

What you imagine is what you manifest. Better to be optimistic and wrong then pessimistic and right.

Better to envision a positive future and help make it happen; ignore the doomers who can only envision destruction, as that is all they are capable of.

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