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These are not the reasons why I hate AI. I hate AI because we still don't have universal housing or healthcare and AI's direct endgame is to eliminate every job that isn't CEO. And what a fucking drab world that will be for all the displaced workers.

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Yeah it sounds a bit like the situation on earth in the expanse where jobs are so few and far between that there's a lottery and most people live on basic income.

That would be pretty terrible because a job doesn't just provide money but also a purpose in life.

Re: purpose on life-people can volunteer in their local communities or online. But the biggest worry for me is not my purpose of life in the AI era, but my standard of living. I have way more control over the former than over the latter.

Management is already being automated away. I think we will end up in a situation like this https://marshallbrain.com/manna1

But here's the thing you can do: learn to use AI. It's early in the cycle, the barrier of entry is not very high yet. But it is getting higher and higher. If you hop on and start riding the wave, one year from now you will not only be miles ahead of others in terms of productivity, it's going to be hard for them to catch up with you.

AI is happening. It's up to you if you want to be one of those who gets ahead or one of those who gets left behind. Just saying.

Spoken like a guy who didn't read the article and is just repeating the platitudes he's heard that make him feel good.

The barrier is getting smaller and smaller. Before you had to be somewhat tech inclined, have a powerful GPU, etc. Now you just type in to a text box in a consumer oriented tool.

It doesn't take a degree in typing in prompts. And any knowledge in "prompt engineering" gets obsoleted by newer models just working how you want the first time.

Other people have already responded to the obvious falseness of your premise, but I feel compelled to reply to one additional part.

> you will ... be miles ahead of others in terms of productivity

This productivity competition framework is utterly contemptible. Workers themselves have never seen any benefit at any point within my lifetime from being more productive. It just lets their employers extract more and employ fewer of them. Hustle culture is gross and socially destructive. Please stop the madness.

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