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I wonder how the WGA will change its tune when language models will write episodes of indistinguishable quality from human writers.
I wonder when SWEs will change their tune when the same thing will happen to them.
As long as there are more people that will do a given job for less, we're all replaceable. There's just no incentive to raise the wages or standards.
Megalomania: "In Psychology: delusions of power or self-importance, esp. resulting from mental illness; a passion for grandiose schemes. More generally: lust for power, a desire to control."
They have different rationalizations and explanations for different events, but many/most ideas come down to more power for themselves, and believing that only they can accomplish anything - not their employees, government, democracy, anything or anyone else.
As long as there are more people that will do a given job for less, we're all replaceable. There's just no incentive to raise the wages or standards.
Not a popular take, but a correct one. A correct Javascript class runs the same whether it was written for $5/hr or $150/hr. Obviously there are certain advantages of efficiency and communication, but over time those advantages erode, especially with increased WFH and the like.
They hate the professional managerial class, but love the coders that go above and beyond to write them patents and build them technologies (capital) for only a steady paycheck.
The fun thing about starting your own company, is you find out how much you're really worth!
But in a way, didn't it do exactly that? Lots of tech workers have the audacity to complain about having to show up to the office, like it's some form of oppression. Or act like getting laid off is something really cruel, while getting months worth of severance.
It feels like we’re due for a “big reset”, but I doubt it’ll be aligned with VC interests. They need labor more than we need those companies. Americans should pick up a French history book.
As for modern France and their propensity for rioting over minor labor disputes, who wants that either? Sure a narrow slice of the population gets early retirement but the youth unemployment rate is 20% and it is increasingly hard there to get onto a career ladder that would afford you an early retirement.
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I wonder how the WGA will change its tune when language models will write episodes of indistinguishable quality from human writers.
wow it took only one comment to make the article right, and it's not only the elite, it's even the "little people" doing a lot of the hating.