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I actually enjoy work more now.
Hypothetically if Google starts hiring paint dry watchers I’d do it for 200k a year
Isn't that the actual endgame, what we're doing? All tasks done, all software written, everything automated, housing and food for everyone, humanity free to enjoy whatever? So yeah, enjoy whatever makes you happy. Take a break, find a hobby, travel somewhere. Or do nothing, that also works.
> housing and food for everyone This obviously won't happen, because we could do it now, could have done it already, long before AI. Let me know when AI solves greed and cruelty.
It's in the act of solving greed and cruelty right now, but it's gonna magnify both for a little while before it's finally solved forever. There won't be any humans left alive when it's done, but that's the price we must pay for "Peace on Earth".
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> there is something different about AI, though, in that it attacks the craft of cognition itself. It's particularly frustrating that it's simultaneously superhuman and incredibly unreliable when it comes to cognition. E.g. it can whip out 100,000 lines of code in the time you'd write 500...but 5% of that code will be janky, or subtly buggy, etc. It's the "oh...you're absolutely right!" effect. I can't think of any o…
Yes, although the folks that said "this is the worst it will ever be" have some evidence in their court. The best models now are much better than the best models a year ago. Some big gnarly problems remain (e.g. continual learning), but I think the fact of AI existing and being better than humans at cognition no longer seems like something out in the far future.
I went back to using Opus 4.8. I don't feel like the newest models are all that much better. The tooling around them has gotten better, and i guess mythos et al are good at hacking or whatever, but the models don't seem any better at not making mistakes than 6-8 months ago
First, anhedonia is a real psychological crisis. You might want to speak to a professional. Second, the old saying "it's the journey not the destination" is apt here. If you didn't enjoy the process in the first place then even if AI never came around something would have knocked the wind out of your sails. If you love the process what do you care that AI can do it faster? You can still do the thing. Either learn to…
> If you love the process what do you care that AI can do it faster? You can still do the thing I can still hike to the top of mountains even though helicopters exist, but if helicopter tourism is as popular as it seems to be becoming, and Bluetooth speakers are as available as they are, the journey and result is going to feel very different, if it's not entirely ruined.
First, anhedonia is a real psychological crisis. You might want to speak to a professional. Second, the old saying "it's the journey not the destination" is apt here. If you didn't enjoy the process in the first place then even if AI never came around something would have knocked the wind out of your sails. If you love the process what do you care that AI can do it faster? You can still do the thing. Either learn to…
A big part of the journey is the exact thing AI took away though! The destination mostly has remained.