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>Everyone is chasing the person ahead of them This is part of what turns grasshoppers into locusts. They're attempting not only to eat the insect in front of them, but escape the one behind that is attempting to eat them. I'll leave it up to the reader to complete the metaphor.
> Technology was supposed to make room for life but instead for more and more people life is slowly being rearranged around AI. It's been downright spooky to watch people I know personally or been familiar with totally fall down the rabbit hole. That said, like with everything, it depends on the person. Some people are taking the Jack Nicholson route, others are finally taking time off and enjoying their life (I'm ta…
> (I'm taking off nights and weekends for the first time in a decade, solely because of the speed up of LLMs). What did the LLM's speed up that was taking that time away from you?
Case in point: I was able to ship this [1] in one month flat at a quality level that doesn't make me squirm to release. That same product would have easily been 60-90 days (if not longer) purely by hand for me in the past.
> Technology was supposed to make room for life but instead for more and more people life is slowly being rearranged around AI. It's been downright spooky to watch people I know personally or been familiar with totally fall down the rabbit hole. That said, like with everything, it depends on the person. Some people are taking the Jack Nicholson route, others are finally taking time off and enjoying their life (I'm ta…
> Technology was supposed to make room for life but instead for more and more people life is slowly being rearranged around AI. It's not like we hadn't been warned by decades of sci-fi work, and researchers, and historians, telling us everything that would be wrong with AI > I'm taking off nights and weekends for the first time in a decade, solely because of the speed up of LLMs No you're not. You could very likely o…
> Technology was supposed to make room for life but instead for more and more people life is slowly being rearranged around AI. It's been downright spooky to watch people I know personally or been familiar with totally fall down the rabbit hole. That said, like with everything, it depends on the person. Some people are taking the Jack Nicholson route, others are finally taking time off and enjoying their life (I'm ta…
> (I'm taking off nights and weekends for the first time in a decade, solely because of the speed up of LLMs). Why weren't you taking them off before?
This really captures the danger of turning every technological gain into a new expectation. AI may save us time, but if we simply reinvest that time into working harder and competing more, what have we actually gained? Throughout history there have been predictions that the next technological breakthrough will lead to us working less and living more fulfilled lives, that has never happened. Same seems to be happening…
> Same seems to be happening with AI, people are just working more rather than less. In the last big AI productivity thread I read on Hacker News the most common anecdote was people saying they weren’t more producing more at work with AI, they were just getting the same work done faster. After that they’d relax or switch to working on side projects. I don’t think that’s going to last for everyone, but I do think it i…
Honestly it's driving me mad and I'm thinking about looking for different work.
> Technology was supposed to make room for life but instead for more and more people life is slowly being rearranged around AI. People fear being replaced by machines and respond by giving those machines more of their judgment, attention and time. And for what? Every “saved” hour is returned to a race with no finish line. I think this is true. I've recently heard Tim Ferriss say: Just because you can do something wel…
> Just because you can do something well doesn't mean it's worth doing. I'm not sure if there's more context to this quote, but on the surface: what a dismal take! Letting some measure of worth dictate what you do feels pretty limiting to me. I understand that he's not saying "make sure you attach worth to everything you do," but there's an implicit judgement process in what he's suggesting. If you do something well,…
I think your attempt at a counterpoint accidentally reinforced the main point: there are more criteria beyond simply being able to do something well that determine whether it's a good idea in the first place. I can make lead balloons faster and cheaper than anyone else but that's not enough to make it worth spending my one and only life making lead balloons.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Just because you can do something well doesn't mean it's worth doing. I'm not sure if there's more context to this quote, but on the surface: what a dismal take! Letting some measure of worth dictate what you do feels pretty limiting to me. I understand that he's not saying "make sure you attach worth to everything you do," but there's an implicit judgement process in what he's suggesting. If you do something well,…
I read it the opposite though; that it's the act of doing, not the (perfect) result, the thing that is valuable. e.g. it's better to paint a canvas badly because it's fun, than to have an AI generate a perfect image. It's not the image that is "well" that is worth it, it's you having fun while doing it that it's worth it. I feel like you're conflating "having worth" (value) and "being worth doing" (it's good to do it…
I tried to tell them that having a job would mean they get to meet new people, they get to escape their financial despair, and that it would add structure and organization to their disheveled and disorganized lives. I explained that work itself has value for the worker outside of the simple return of the paycheck, the activity of being engaged completing a task having direct psychological impact on the task completer.
Both of their responses, taken months apart, boiled down to that if a day of work didn't make them so wealthy that they never had to work again it wasn't worth it for them.
So I gave up.
This is insanity. p.s. Very annoying when people link to paywalled articles.
>The other story covers a founder who has Claude review her first dates and tell her whether she was engaging and empathetic enough, thanks to recording every single one of them. Two people meet and afterwards, rather than talk to the other person or trust her own judgment, one of them sits alone with a machine and asks how well she performed. Holy insanity
Dating in the Silicon Valley must be hell.