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An AI Hate Wave Is Here

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Re: An AI Hate Wave Is Here

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Post by happytoexplain »

throwaway27448 wrote: post #17
saez wrote: post #3

I think it’s interesting that AI is in itself compressing the length of time it takes to move through its phases to reach maturity. It’s a lot faster than for example the dotcom phase. Humans don’t much like change, and fast change worries them even more. The dotcom bubble didn’t really threaten jobs in the same way that the AI shift is. It’s closer to the industrial revolution / the industrial loom where people lost…

Luddite would imply people are burning data centers down to fight back. I don't think we're quite there yet.

Sure, but sentiment is harder to compare. People can't just go burn down a data center so simply. I think if "AI" was just a machine in the field outside, people would be destroying it.

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Post by reactordev »

AussieWog93 wrote: post #10
10xDev wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The tech industry is just eating itself. Other fields seem nowhere near as impacted.

I've personally used Codex to reconcile financial data, and met a guy who basically built his own AI inference engine to help him fight a custody battle for his daughter (semantic search over gigabytes of documents). I'm not saying lawyers and accountants are going to all be out of a job (at the end of the day, they do more than just comb over documents to find the needle in the haystack), but a lot of the manual gru…

This. AI is augmenting normal work and eating engineering/security/research work alive. Eventually it will eat normal work. We'll be prompting no matter the role.

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Post by wilg »

happytoexplain wrote: post #19
wilg wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fortunately the complaints about the economy and homeownership are also just folk wisdom that doesn't really reflect reality https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/05/how-gen-z-outpaces-past-gene... The economy, real wages, etc are basically higher than ever (despite idiot Trump's best efforts). People are mad because being mad is fun and we're all on being mad machines 24/7.

This has nothing to do with reality, where reality means "what people have", rather than "the economy".

"What people have" is robustly measured, well-understood, and pretty much all available evidence suggests that people (at least in the US and developed countries) are doing better than ever on most important metrics. But it is not as seductive as "everything is terrible"!

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Post by wilg »

reactordev wrote: post #20
wilg wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fortunately the complaints about the economy and homeownership are also just folk wisdom that doesn't really reflect reality https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/05/how-gen-z-outpaces-past-gene... The economy, real wages, etc are basically higher than ever (despite idiot Trump's best efforts). People are mad because being mad is fun and we're all on being mad machines 24/7.

Where are you getting your numbers from because the stock market has ceased to be linked to reality for the last decade. Trump fired the stats and numbers office. The only numbers we have are "trust me" numbers which are completely false. Most people would agree that the economy has ground to a halt and everyone I know complains about the gas prices and grocery prices. The reality is there are a lot of people out of…

Whether most people agree is irrelevant to whether it's right. You can look at all kinds of numbers which are not the stock market to determine how well people are doing and whether things are getting better or worse. Your conspiracy theories about unemployment numbers are wrong.
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