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and they're ultimately tools strictly to replace you and your labor, they can't/won't cure cancer or make your life better. Your life will get worse and worse in every aspect until they extract maximum value from all of our lives with this technology through every avenue possible. Not sure why you guys are so excited about these developments.

This technology is strictly an extractive parasite on the world. Use it, but don't be excited.

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My labor makes other people's lives better, so I would expect something that replaces my labor to do the same.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodity_fetishism

global development and relief of poverty has relied on there being an economic surplus for all from organized labor. everyone gets a benefit although it is unfairly distributed.

i think that there is growing organized labor today that produces no surplus. instead, it transfers wealth from some to others, causing net harm to all in the process. an example of this would be purdue pharma.

depending on who you ask the list of jobs and industries which have zero surplus is getting large. swathes of private equity and leveraged financial instruments, shitcoins, management consultancy, are pure deadweight loss.

the work does nothing or causes net harm.

You’d expect that, wouldn’t you? But, alas…

I'm using AI to build things I wouldn't (and/or couldn't) have built before.

That's the opposite of parasitic.

Talking as if you are not disposable. If you are let go from your company, you can be easily replaceable.

People already started using contributor API, and your input is irrelevant.

Don’t you have some looms to break?

I’m retired so it won’t be replacing my labor :)

The sibling reply to this is just such lazy thinking, such a trite cliche. Yes, all members of a generation are bad, end of story. Can we get back to the war between the sexes now?

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