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Unless the industry is able to reduce the cost drastically and soon, it will have negative impact on all of us.
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what hope exactly?
From what I read, he stated that even the coming of computers in the first place threatened many jobs, also many fresh graduates felt probably the same way back then, but everything worked out in the end.
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Conservatives loves AI because they see it as it is: not a technology, but a political framework to force their ideology on everyone AI is first and foremost a political artefact: https://tante.cc/2026/04/21/ai-as-a-fascist-artifact/
If by “conservatives” you mean the Vance/Thiel/Yarvan crowd, sure.
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For college graduates, LLM tech is an existential threat to their livelihoods by making it so much harder to start a career without connections or pedigree.
Disliking AI for that reason harms you more than helps you.
Can someone in this thread who says “the kids must be wrong” give an actual optimistic case for AI? Because as far as I understand it, the “optimist” case for AI is that LLMs become God and wipe out human life as we know it entirely, and replace it with a transcendent post-human intelligence. And in the meantime, we’ll have a permanent underclass that will be kept alive on some kind of subsistence UBI. That seems to…
The pessimistic case is based on the misconception that AI is some kind of a superhuman. Our current AI models are trained on human data, which has an unfortunate side effect which causes them to think and behave like a human. But as soon as we learn to train them without human data, we find out that AI is just a supercalculator, and it won't have any own will or agency. Will and agency are primal biological instinct…
> “The future is not yet finished. It is now your turn to shape it.” This sounds cynical if there is a kinglike president, surrounded by a small clique of tech billionaires who all are becoming increasingly open about the kind of future they want to realise.
It's also one of my major issues I have with how this is being introduced into many enterprises, including the company I work for: "Here's AI. Figure out how we can make money from it. We're adding it to your performance reviews" Basically, here's a solution. Find problems for it.
Same where I work, and I suppose everywhere. It's upsetting, and there's no way of politely voicing concerns about this without looking like a luddite... which is obviously bad for you and your job security.
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Political conservatives are generally all in on AI. There is some resistance from the “crunchy momma” wings of the conservative movement, but overall political liberals are putting up far more resistance to AI.
This is like saying the entire democratic party is pro-crypto because of Kirsten Gillibrand is a crypto shill.
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In reality they like LLMs because they're the highest user of them. Pew reported 64% of U.S. teens used AI chatbots, while a Harvard study found 51% of ages 14–22 had used generative AI at some point. What you answer on a survey is meaningless. Look at their actions. And no they're not being pressured to use LLMs, standards or expectations have not gone up dramatically. https://www.gse.harvard.edu/ideas/usable-knowle…
“Revealed preferences” are not the same as actual preferences. Treating them the same is what led us to the current situation we have with everyone addicted to social media and miserable. Also, expectations are not the only thing that could pressure someone to use these tools. If all your peers were using these tools and finishing their work in a fraction of the time it takes you, and getting the same or better grade…
The obvious difference between LLM adoption and social media, if you think about it for longer than 10 seconds, is that there is social pressure to use social media. Your friends are organizing and bonding on social media. None of this exists with LLMs. There is no social pressure to have an AI girlfriend, quite the opposite.
Also I preempted the "if all your peers were using these tools..." none of this applies to students. In fact i'm sure most teacher would prefer not getting AI slop. Standards have not increased.
Please read the entire comment next time before replying
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Let me guess. Anyone who hasn't been avoiding AI isn't "truly smart"?
I'd phrase it like this: every time you delegate, you're letting that skill atrophy.
How many times have you written a boring CRUD endpoint that returns a list of results?
Half the stuff I lose time on is the boring boilerplate code (despite using frameworks). Now I can focus on the fun stuff like determining an optimal algorithm or even getting the LLM to walk me through using kubectl on the terminal
Now I know some kubectl commands off by heart, which I didn't before.
- kubectl get namespaces | grep "foo"
> Schmidt urged graduates to embrace freedom, open debate, equality and the willingness to engage with those they disagree with. I think it was a great embrace of freedom and open debate to boo him for only asserting predictions that benefit him.
It's not clear to me why they booed him. you think for only asserting predictions that benefit him? Not because they agree on those predictions and don't want that future, blame him for this role in it?