Ask HN: How to deal with the AI-pocalypse as a regular guy?

You can't get a steam engine to dig a hole though. It was used to pump water. Then carry things. Then locomotion. They were limited to rails. They did take jobs. Then other kinds of engines appeared. They did things steam engines didn't do so well.

But turning an engine to a bulldozer isn't easy and that created a lot of new jobs. Right now LLMs are doing the equivalent of pumping water. Heavy, boring, tedious things that humans don't really want to do. I hated doing data entry and cleaning and LLMs are great at that.

One thing many creatives won't admit is that a lot of their work is generic and repetitive, simply requiring lots of attention to get good output. Screenwriters were one of the first people I've observed utilizing LLMs, because they understood this. Someone hacked Copilot to start writing scripts. There's probably a lot of things it can do, perhaps in animation and logo design and stuff. And there's a lot it can't do. But they're shocked because it's doing the "soulful" stuff that people thought made them human, when it's actually just the advantage of having a huge training database of tropes.

Will art go obsolete? The first knowledge worker to lose his job to AI was Kasparov, and yet human chess is still more popular than ever.

I hope this works out for you, but for anyone else reading I would strongly discourage doing something like this. Stock picking and predicting the future more generally is extremely hard to get right. Nvidia is setup well for the near to medium future but things don't always happen as expected, especially in a fast moving domain. And the thing is, that upside is already priced into the stock. Even if Nvidia does well going forward it might end up just meeting expectations and not significantly growing the stock price.

As we layer on the abstractions I feel further and further removed from the land that sustains us. It's an existential threat. I don't knowingly choose to use any products of LLM/ML, and I've scaled back my computer use to: reading some blogs (low tech magazine & no tech magazine, plus sites linked from there); access to library ebooks; medical access for family; credit-unioning; watching a streamed show with my spouse for date night or something on PBS with the family (otherwise I don't bother with streaming, and I can imagine a time again when I don't even read, but a lot has to heal/reassemble for that to be tenable); and keeping up distance friendships via videogames (BG3 and Solium Infernum are all I play these days, and then almost never solo, after decades of "self-medicating" after a rough childhood).

I read mostly nonfiction now, towards being a knowledgeable member of the rural community I'm in, inspired in part by Jessica Carew Kraft's book Why We Need to be Wild. We're in this together, and the best place to start is with those within walking distance.