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Exactly, and it's funny because here everytime we discuss the impact of AI on vulnerable population, be it for taking jobs / increasing CO2 consumption / destabilizing politics, there's always a rich white guy with his cushy programmer job saying "but I don't understand, to me all this AI stuff is nice, I can work even more comfortably"...

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I don't think I have ever seen someone on HN dismiss concerns about AI's impact on other people by saying it's good for them personally. I think you have a stereotype of a white guy with a cushy programmer job in your head, and you hear him saying this when other people of various races say other things.

Oh my friend, you are visiting a different hn than a lot of us. I nearly got in a flame war yesterday with a noob and had to step back because of the density, caught my self being bated by a potential troll. Their argument was exactly what you’re claiming to have not seen.

To be fair I never stereotyped them even in my mind. But the audacity and dismissal of others was very bating.

I did my best but still a very poor job of arguing and had to step away.

I don't think I have ever seen someone on HN dismiss concerns about AI's impact on other people by saying it's good for them personally.

You may read different threads than the parent. I see it occasionally. Not as often as the crypto bros, but it exists on HN.

I mean, just this week there was a popular post “My AI Skeptic Friends are all Nuts” that generated a ton of such discussion and dismissal. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44163063

Exactly

> there's always a rich white guy with his cushy programmer job saying "but I don't understand, to me all this AI stuff is nice, I can work even more comfortably"...

How do you know they are white?

Or a guy?

Thanks for your question that totally misses the point (get some basic statistics about the population reading HN if you want...)

"we need to be going after all these overly privileged white male programmers, they're horrible people" - said the overly privileged indian/chinese male programmer

So in other words: stereotyping and racism is okay when I do it because they're privileged? (Don't even bother with the bullshit power + privilege = racism formula definition of racism just made up by idiots.)

I may be white, but what I hear you saying is my being gay doesn't earn me any brown-ie points, then?

Please don't generalise by a single aspect (skin colour). You will skip over many minorities and individuals by doing so, just because they share one attribute.

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