221–230 of 242 posts
> Speaking to graduates of University of Central Florida’s College of Arts and Humanities and Nicholson School of Communication and Media Well, yeah.
It's interesting that I'm only seeing this kind of anti-ai tendency only in American/Western art circles. Anywhere else in Middle East/Asia, artists are having fun experimenting with it.
https://data.bls.gov/projections/nationalMatrix?queryParams=...
The top 2 by percentage are:
- Office and administrative support occupations
- Sales and related occupations
Earlier quoted context omitted.
In the past, "labor saving technology" has always spawned alternate jobs that people could take with some retraining. This time it might be truly different. If one day AI can actually do all knowledge work, there might not be anything left for former knowledge workers to do. There's no physical law that says new technology necessarily produces 1:1 new, different jobs.
Most jobs for most of human history have not been "knowledge work" involving symbolic manipulation. Maybe all the marketers, business analysts and software engineers of the world can take up their true callings as plumbers, carpenters and dishwasher repair people.
There's a very real possibility that AI proponents completely lose the next generation of adults. The output is not enjoyable to consume, the people who rely on it are not cool, and the effects of using it are unpleasant and hard to defend on aesthetic, intellectual, or moral grounds. There are real use cases for this technology! But the idea that the generation of superficially plausible text is "the next Industrial…
My great hope for AI is that it kills social media by making 99% of content and comments untrustworthy and not worth consuming.
Like it or not, there is a lot of value in public discourse, and we lose all that value if we drown it in noise.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Most jobs for most of human history have not been "knowledge work" involving symbolic manipulation. Maybe all the marketers, business analysts and software engineers of the world can take up their true callings as plumbers, carpenters and dishwasher repair people.
You think that all knowledge workers of the world will accept their social and material downgrades without making wave? That they'll all be able to find manual work?
The financial and social hierarchy you allude to is not immutable. Programming was once a low-paid, low-status job done largely by women. It's only relatively recently that it's become a lucrative, high-status masculine-coded career.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Social media isn’t always about consuming content . It’s also about getting jolts of momentary joy and reward. You get those in two ways: seeing cool things, and participating in cool things. Especially cool things before they go viral. Clicking like on a post that isn’t viral yet , and gambling to yourself whether it will go viral, has the same dopamine flux when it pays off as winning at the slots. Even my reward-d…
I find this idea of getting in early interesting, because it is completely novel to me. Is it common for people to derive so much pleasure from voting for something before it gathers momentum? You really lean into this idea, likening it to winning a jackpot, so I assume it is at least somewhat widespread.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
My great hope for AI is that it kills social media by making 99% of content and comments untrustworthy and not worth consuming.
Twitter arguably did that a while ago.
You can only give it a heart, otherwise move on. There’s no Karma or other points.
Except for view counts etc which are useful for content creators but for the average users it doesn’t do much.
However you do see the number of likes on your comment and get notification pings so there’s that..
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Doom is popular right now. People want to feel terrible and pessimistic and their media diets only reinforce this.
To be fair, the labour market for a recent humanities graduate is quite crap right now, too.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
To be fair, the labour market for a recent humanities graduate is quite crap right now, too.
In particular, CS students are feeling it more than most majors. (Especially compared with the shock that most of them probably thought CS was the field for job security.) Saw an article recently that said CS majors were up there with performing arts majors and art history majors in terms of unemployment rate.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm confused. It seems the parent comment is saying AI proliferation could make cost of goods drop orders of magnitude and you say it's detached from reality because people don't want goods, they want housing food and gas? Housing food and gas are goods... Or did you mean something completely different?
Did you try reading their second paragraph? The one where they claim we already have an abundance of said goods?
As a Gen Z or Gen A I'm sure it doesn't feel this way, but that's mostly because they are comparing themselves to what they see on social media instead of comparing themselves to how people actually lived 100 years ago, or how people in developing nations lived 20 years ago.
I think point the OP was making is that as we grow abundance people will still be miserable because as expectations rise satisfaction falls. Also most people are susceptible to envy, and the more stuff there is the more statistically likely it is to be distributed unevenly.
Even if the average person's circumstances improve objectively from generation to generation, people's 's instinct are to fixate on the parts of their lives theyre unsatisfied with and to compare themselves with others who are better off - leading to subjective misery.