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Up is down. Black is white. Dogs are cats. Sound logic, troll.
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What are the best coping mechanisms for AI Fatalism?
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#42Therefore 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…
Faith is a fascinating approach here, though it has some flaws. It works on an emotional level if you believe that there is a god that takes care of you as this quote suggests, but if you look for material evidence that there is such a god, there is none to be found. In the medical sciences this usually goes under the name “placebo effect”.
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#43Vote 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.
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#45I'm waiting for the end of the tax year then I'm leaving my employment of 15 years and having a career break away from computers
if it's not over in a year or so I'm finding an alternative career, or retiring early
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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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#48There’s a term for this behavior: Doomscrolling
People who doomscroll rarely recognize it as doomscrolling because they only think of the term as something that happens to other people. They see their own consumption as accurate and important. They don’t see their sources as doomerism, they think they have identified the real truth that others don’t see yet.
They have a short memory for the gross inaccuracies of their doom bubble, such as when everyone thought the AI2027 project had accurately predicted the arrival of evil AGI next year. Remember when that was everywhere and the doomers cited it in every topic until suddenly it became useless to their cause and disappeared?
Much has been written about doomscrolling and you can find some good sources for help. Conceptually it’s simple: You need to greatly reduce your consumption of these sources and, very importantly, replace time spent doomscrolling with something healthier for you. Try reading a book, visiting the gym, going outside and walking, or even playing video games or watching movies.
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#49This 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.
i've been through a few hype cycles as well, but this one looks just as big as the invention of the internet, at the very very least (IMHO it's much much more than that).
My way of coping with it is to just go with the flow and learn all the new technics there is to learn, until the machine replaces us all.