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Young People Hate AI CEOs So Passionately That It's Almost Hard to Believe

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Re: Young People Hate AI CEOs So Passionately That It's Almost Hard to Believe

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Post by throw-the-towel »

chillfox wrote: post #35
bbor wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure, CEOs are rarely appreciated in general. But the anti-tech sentiment is absolutely a new and rapidly growing beast. It’s different — trust me.

A lot of tech recently has just made things worse. Uber made the taxi experience way worse and less predictable. Now, I can’t just walk out of a bar, get into a clean taxi and go home, I have to fiddle with an app, wait, wave trying to identify “my” ride, then hope it’s clean and safe. It’s a nightmare compared to what we had before. Uber eats made food delivery significantly worse and more expensive. It used to be t…

My experience with Uber is the opposite, FWIW.

Re: Young People Hate AI CEOs So Passionately That It's Almost Hard to Believe

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Post by gdulli »

chillfox wrote: post #35
bbor wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure, CEOs are rarely appreciated in general. But the anti-tech sentiment is absolutely a new and rapidly growing beast. It’s different — trust me.

A lot of tech recently has just made things worse. Uber made the taxi experience way worse and less predictable. Now, I can’t just walk out of a bar, get into a clean taxi and go home, I have to fiddle with an app, wait, wave trying to identify “my” ride, then hope it’s clean and safe. It’s a nightmare compared to what we had before. Uber eats made food delivery significantly worse and more expensive. It used to be t…

TV has unskippable and targeted commercials now. The list goes on and on.

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Post by scotty79 »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #27
RivieraKid wrote: post #15

I'm not that young anymore but when I hear Dario Amodei speak and gesticulate enthusiastically about how AI will soon make my job redundant, from a positio of someone who can retire now and who benefits from AI possibly replacing workers, it's very hard to like him.

Lets suppose everyone in the world miraculously loses their jobs to AI, who is paying for it? How? What are they selling? What stops the rest of humanity from turning data centers into a pile of ash? These people are so disconnected from reality.

You also just explained how people fearing that AI will take all jobs are equally disconnected from reality. Although in less joyful manner.

Re: Young People Hate AI CEOs So Passionately That It's Almost Hard to Believe

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Post by ishouldstayaway »

chillfox wrote: post #35
bbor wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure, CEOs are rarely appreciated in general. But the anti-tech sentiment is absolutely a new and rapidly growing beast. It’s different — trust me.

A lot of tech recently has just made things worse. Uber made the taxi experience way worse and less predictable. Now, I can’t just walk out of a bar, get into a clean taxi and go home, I have to fiddle with an app, wait, wave trying to identify “my” ride, then hope it’s clean and safe. It’s a nightmare compared to what we had before. Uber eats made food delivery significantly worse and more expensive. It used to be t…

I agree wholeheartedly with your first sentence here. But I find it difficult to think of a worse example you could have picked than taxis. For all Uber's many faults, the taxi companies were worse. Hell they're still worse.

Are you old enough to remember the bad old days?

Re: Young People Hate AI CEOs So Passionately That It's Almost Hard to Believe

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Post by Razengan »

More likely it's the politicians and lawyers etc. that are afraid of AI empowering the peasant class, so they're telling the commoners to divert their angst against AI.

Oh AI will take our jobs..? LET IT!!

Who wants to work all your life and still not be able to afford a house?

Instead of asking to be wage slaves your entire lives, demand your politicians to give you UBI.

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Post by r_lee »

scotty79 wrote: post #43
giancarlostoro wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lets suppose everyone in the world miraculously loses their jobs to AI, who is paying for it? How? What are they selling? What stops the rest of humanity from turning data centers into a pile of ash? These people are so disconnected from reality.

You also just explained how people fearing that AI will take all jobs are equally disconnected from reality. Although in less joyful manner.

what kind of bargaining power will you have with "well someone must consume!"?

Re: Young People Hate AI CEOs So Passionately That It's Almost Hard to Believe

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Post by kj4211cash »

I wonder how much of this is caused by income inequality. There are some young people I talk to that are genuinely worried about whether AI will take all the jobs. But there are a lot more that rightfully realize that they probably can't afford the middle class life their parents had and are annoyed at all the money AI is hoovering up and how rich these CEOs are. And that's the surface level. There's all sorts of resentment that hasn't really been thought through and wouldn't exist if we had the sort of real growth in lower- and middle-class incomes that we used to.

Re: Young People Hate AI CEOs So Passionately That It's Almost Hard to Believe

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Post by smegger001 »

Razengan wrote: post #47

More likely it's the politicians and lawyers etc. that are afraid of AI empowering the peasant class, so they're telling the commoners to divert their angst against AI. Oh AI will take our jobs..? LET IT!! Who wants to work all your life and still not be able to afford a house? Instead of asking to be wage slaves your entire lives, demand your politicians to give you UBI.

>Oh AI will take our jobs..? LET IT!!

Except people still need to eat and.pay for a roof over their heaf

>Who wants to work all your life and still not be able to afford a house?

That is the fear they have from ai

>Instead of asking to be wage slaves your entire lives, demand your politicians to give you UBI.

Except the same people leading these companies do everytjing thaey can to avoid paying taxes that could fund ubi.

Elons whole Doge fiasco, the google guys fighting wealth taxes in california all fights against helping the people they are displacing. The tech ceos talk a good game about an ai powered life of luxury and ease but its not for you and me its for them and fuck the proles.

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