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Re: After AI takes everything

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Post by bregma »

stemlord wrote: post #35
functionmouse wrote: post #12

> My answer: soon. By the end of this year or next, the year after at the very latest. lol Two More Weeks(TM)

That really pissed me off. Why do people continute to pretend they can predict the future

Get used to it: I think we're going to be pretending to predict the future for many years to come.

Re: After AI takes everything

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Post by rayiner »

AI can’t take away babies, picnics with your spouse, or dipping your toes into the ocean. If it replaces work, then great, that’s the stuff we didn’t need to do anyway.

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Post by CuriouslyC »

embedding-shape wrote: post #38
agentultra wrote: post #27

Again, they didn’t smash the machines because they hated the technology or wanted everyone to be making lace by hand. They were arguing for basic human rights in the workplace. Things like child labour were still super common and were among the practices the Luddites wanted to abolish. Along with the workhouses they wanted to replace with protection for workers (they didn’t have the word for it but they wanted a soci…

I think the vibe is generally same with AI too. If people believe AI will genuinely be used for good (like many in China seem to think, I get the feeling) then the public at large seems fine with industry focusing on it. But when people have the feeling or even expectation that it'll be used for things like increasing the wealth/wage/inequality gap, control of the masses, automated widespread surveillance and more, y…

People in China think AI will be used for good because China has a track record of protecting workers from the fallout of automation (see courts ruling people can't be wholesale replaced with AI), and they view the ridiculous surveillance less negatively because the party delivers low crime and rapidly improving economic circumstances.

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Post by CuriouslyC »

no_multitudes wrote: post #5

Writing tip: you do not need to have LLMs expand your ideas into a longer form for you. Spreading out your ideas across a longer post does not make them better.

No, but it satisfies a number of algorithms that drive traffic to websites better, and there are honestly people who will upvote something that starts strong and is long without reading the whole thing, who wouldn't upvote that same strong start if it wasn't padded with filler to make it look more exhausitive.

Not a fan either but there are real game theoretic reasons to do it.

Re: After AI takes everything

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Post by paulhebert »

bregma wrote: post #51
stemlord wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That really pissed me off. Why do people continute to pretend they can predict the future

Get used to it: I think we're going to be pretending to predict the future for many years to come.

I think we’ll stop predicting the future soon. By the end of this year or next, the year after at the very latest.

Re: After AI takes everything

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Post by torginus »

Btw, its insane to think imo that a few years from now theres going to be no jobs - AI isnt going to cook food or stack bricks or any number of manual processes - in fact I'd be very happy if AI could just fix software - basically heaps upon heaps of software is just built wrong fundamentally (operating systems, just to give one huge example), and AI productivity could give us a chance to try again and build things the right way.

Re: After AI takes everything

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Post by _pdp_ »

I am absolutely convinced that in just a few years 90% of what we know as the Internet will be AI and possibly there will be an entire new class of economy that is based around these agents.

I can see glimpses of that today but we are a bit too early.

And with that almost all of the software will be written by AI for AI but humans will be in control - I hope :)

Re: After AI takes everything

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Post by marcosdumay »

pydry wrote: post #4

I've started to realize after poring over pull requests which are, frankly, slop that the devs who are the most bullish on AI are the ones who raise those PRs and don't recognize the slop. AI for sure is giving all of them existential crises but I'm not sure most of them ever really belonged in the industry in the first place. I give it 9-12 months before they start to realize that acknowledgement of this existential…

> I give it 9-12 months

That's a wildly optimistic take.

Most of them will never realize it by themselves, and will put the blame of people reacting badly to their work on the people complaining, not themselves.

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