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And in Sweden, another "nordic socialist country", there's no tax on property nor inheritance, as well as very low taxes on invested capital. There are about 1.5x more USD-billiona…

You mean I can't sue society if I die nine years into retirement?

> are predicted to get to what 90-95 on average? That may be true, but will we (who are in our 40's now) have the same quality of life at 90-95 as a now 75-year old will have at 80…

Of course there is no guarantee that your 65-75 years will be good, but it's a lot more likely that your 65-75 years will be good than your 75-85 years.

This is truly sad. As a Swede I fear my country may follow suite. The retirement age in Sweden used to be 65 and now it's 67. Looking at older people around me, most lead a much le…

Well, people in offices need new shiny phones every year and new Teslas to get to the office after all...

I really wish people would stop talking about MD5 already. It is almost never the answer. On a modern CPU you get HW accelerated SHA-256, it will always be much faster than your be…

> Perhaps the doom isn't so imminent? Perhaps, or perhaps we don't know what the fall of civilization looks like? I remember watching a talk by Jonathan Blow where he poses that qu…

Last I used it, even pretty small grammars took forever to build. I had to be very diligent not to let the grammar cpp-file depend on anything else in my codebase.

If you for instance work with software developers, true vulnerability shows at a code review not at a occasional game of soccer or similar. Few software developers identify themsel…

Also consistently forgetting the 15 times larger population.

As I've said countless times in other comments, this is not a shallow job security issue. My post is about how I believe AI will change us as people and society in a much more fund…

> The bleakness you feel might be due to a poverty of imagination. Thank you for your diagnosis. It may _also_ be due to the opposite. If you know anything about how the brain work…

No, I don't think it is simple. In fact I think it is impossible. Just looking at the division in this thread tells me that there will never even be an agreement for taking such a …

> AI does not make stuff like this go away. It actually frees more people to become these imbue-ers of meaning, if they are so inclined. Yeah, but in that very example I feel the v…

Of course it's an absurd argument but my point is that in a fully automated world in abundance we will have 10 billion tourists. Also I like to differ between performing and creati…

Yeah, but it's only possible because we, the software engineers, make it so. We could as a collective refuse to work on AI but we won't because it's a pretty, shiny, object with fa…

No need when I can examine myself to know myself :). While not actively working for it, I'm at least inspired by the FIRE movement. I am also self-employed so I don't see job secur…

Thanks for this optimistic post and to be clear I don't expect alphacode to put me out of a job. I've seen the hilarious examples where people get ChatGPT to for instance claim tha…

> Our society currently affords ample opportunity to "productively" avoid those questions. I fully agree. > Some people already have answers to those questions, and stand to gain f…

Thank you for the ad hominem attack. It's always a pleasure to discuss things with people who like to jump to conclusions and assume things about people they don't know anything ab…

As I stated in other posts, this isn't really a fear about losing my job as much as on losing my will to live...

It isn't? So companies aren't trying to produce things as cheap as possible to increase their margins? And robots that are never sick, takes no vacation, needs no rest and are most…

And when there are 10 billion people at the base camp of Mount Everest because they have nothing better to do?

These are all good options of course, still with the lack of creative things, it might not be enough for all people.