Disengage from the hype - just the autocomplete isn't going to eat the world, but it is marginally useful.
What are the best coping mechanisms for AI Fatalism?
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#32Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? And why do you w…
Absolute perfection. The Lord be praised!
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#33All those folks -respected well known technical people - yelling for years about how AI was going to end humanity. Remember all that? Yeah none of it happened, humanity didn’t end. They stopped embarrassing themselves eventually when they realised their imagined fictional futures were false. Same thing. Cope by not imagining fictional futures.
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LLMs are not AI so don't worry about it, they also never will be.
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#34This too shall pass.
Seriously. I've been through too many hype cycles to count. In a few years we will look back on this and see three things:
* Both the downsides and upsides were exaggerated
* A lot of VCs lost money and many of the trillion dollar buildouts didn't happen
* after the hype died down we figured out what AI was actually good for, and what it wasn't.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nobody is forcing AI on you. Data centers, sure, but nobody has mentioned data centers. Progressive democrats shouldn't waste their time talking about software.
Nobody is forcing AI on us? How can you be on HN and even make that claim? It’s literally everywhere.
In the last week or so my company has enabled some kind of Microsoft spam bot in Teams that posts several useless messages nobody wants in meeting chat-channels, burying messages from humans and generally making everything worse. It's astonishingly useless.
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#36All those folks -respected well known technical people - yelling for years about how AI was going to end humanity. Remember all that? Yeah none of it happened, humanity didn’t end. They stopped embarrassing themselves eventually when they realised their imagined fictional futures were false. Same thing. Cope by not imagining fictional futures.
We are going to get ads in ChatGPT soon though, so at least it wasn’t all for nothing.
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#37Vote for progressive democrats. All of this AI is a choice. We don’t have to let it be forced on us by the parasite billionaire class.
Nobody is forcing AI on you. Data centers, sure, but nobody has mentioned data centers. Progressive democrats shouldn't waste their time talking about software.
seems to be forced on me
every piece of software seems to have gained useless AI features
my employer is rabbiting on about it constantly
if I go out socially people bring out their phones and ask ChatGPT everything
it's just horrible and I hate it
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#38This is fatalism? Citrini is an _optimistic_ best case scenario narrative fantasy. -30% markets value, that's Tuesday.
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#39Imagine ideal future, and consider if it's achievable without AI.
Being forced to work is not much different from slavery, I would rather roll the dice than keep the status quo.