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Imagine the world when blogging and self-publishing was starting out, if all the NYT journalists started saying "OMG, this internet thing is going to allow anyone to start a news site. Are you saying you write opinion pieces without studying and going to journalism schools?" It is the same energy here.
Gatekeepers. All of them.
Everyone starts out that way. When you start work as a coder, or an artist, or writer, you are just enough skilled to make money. You can bypass some of this step by university or other forms of education, or you can be lucky enough to have spent your teenage years developing a skill that makes you money as an adult. But nobody starts out highly skilled.
It's a genuine source of worry that AI will subvert the process of people going from "just skilled enough to make money" to "highly skilled". I'm not fully convinced that it will - I think it's likely that in the long term society will adapt, just as it did to other tools.
But nonetheless it's a valid concern that shouldn't be dismissed. As with other new tools, it's going to disrupt a lot of people's livelihoods and we should approach that with empathy rather than telling people they simply weren't skilled enough to deserve to continue their career in this new reality.
Democratizing tools, knowledge, access has always been messy. Think of the days when books were restricted to only elites. Explosion of ideas happened once it was opened up, but it was also messy.
We progress when everybody is empowered, and I see AI giving super powers to all of them. Will it be messy? 100% but we'll come out it better than what we have today.
Unfortunately HN predominantly caters to the doomposters and doomscrollers, and then somewhere the shitposters that thrive on performative acting of outrage, fright, drama, and so on to perpetuate the cycle and milk it to its full extent.
I’m not saying go out get some 25-year shelf life MREs and move to a very LCOL area and start growing vegetables in case you need to get through a particularly peckish winter, but humanity as a whole has lived through worse situations and no idea is off the table if its time has come.
I imagine a lot of people are very averse to losing what they have, being set back in their life in some way and seeing others unfairly benefit and perhaps unfairly benefit from their hard work. I don’t have an answer for this that actually solves the issue at heart. We won’t be holding hands and singing Kumbaya any time soon and weather events certainly don’t mind razing entire states. Starting resistance movements and communities is great but hard, unrewarding work with no guarantee of success.