Just remember that machines already do most of the work. Nobody ploughs fields anymore.

Yes, of course. What is AI freeing us of? Communicating with other human beings?

Ah what a chore. Other human beings. Wish I could just enter into a cocoon of solitude for the rest of my life. I mean I'm kind of being glib here but the ~amazing future~ we all seem to take as inevitable has me playing solo orchestra conductor, prompt pupettering a massive fleet of hyper intelligent code bots, prompting an AI to make prompts for its sub AIs in a giant scintillating cyberprism. Talking to an AI customer service agent. Having an AI secretary. Having an AI lover.

All alone, in the middle of it all.

Sorry, I actually like talking to my real human colleagues!

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		It feels like some people have devalued their human experience so much that they're itching to burn off the rest of it for the hope of a technological nirvana occasionally punctuated by mundane human needs. AI/the Internet will never fill the void, and they know it, but like an addict they demand more in the hopes that it will. The AI girlfriend won't be enough, they'll be told to wait for AI girlfriend 2.0 to _really_ experience love. Being played for a fool long enough makes anyone jaded and cynical.
	▲	totallykvothe 19 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		I've never agreed with an HN comment so hard as this one.
	▲	recursive 10 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		This is the setup for the matrix.

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dilawar 19 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Those machines unlocked more work, different work, that led to better paying jobs!

I am all up for AI if it leads to "better" work and jobs but cutting jobs to cut cost sound like a race to bottom!!

Are AI time /cost savings going to help me pursue creative hobbies, open source, help my community without worrying about livelihood then great. If it is a means to make rich people richer by making most of us worse off, maybe we should stop and think for a while?

There may be a risk here that a zero/negative-sum game is advertised as a positive-sum game (e.g war).

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_carbyau_ 19 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Do we have reasons why AI won't do the same "unlocked more work, different work, that led to better paying jobs" ?

One of the issues with [a change] is that some like it and some don't - but is there any reason to believe that society will get worse as a result?

My only real concern is meritocracy. It is hard enough already, but now rich kids can literally buy intelligence?

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phyzome 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

What a fascinatingly out-of-touch comment.