You are completely misrepresenting the concern conveyed in the comment I replied to.

Here is a link to what I was referring to:

Also, replacing manual labor with innovation is what makes us human, and we have been doing it at least as long as civilization itself. You wouldn't exist without it. Why would you demonize that?

Also how is it wholesome to keep people doing work they don't want to do and are bad at, while other people who depend on the work being done are having to wait longer than they need to?

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caminante a day ago | parent [-]

Thanks for linking. I searched 'persistent' and it turns out it was 'repetitive'. Frankly, the study is inconclusive (lots of "mays" and no clear causal arrow) and the HN discussion is all over this, need for controls, more research, etc.

As for innovation, hasn't this been the ethical debate du jour? Unlike prior times, AI is posed as an existential threat.

I'm all for reducing waste, but you get into UBI and other issues.

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FloorEgg 20 hours ago | parent [-]

Yeah I misremembered. I also only brought it up because of recency bias, and didn't put the time or thought into the point I really wanted to make.

I brought up a case of where LLMs can automate tedious work that people do poorly and improve services for the public, and you responded with an assumption that someone will rip out the work to employ their own company (corruption).

This seemed absurdly negative to me. You are in a place where the comment you decide to leave is based on an assumption that all (or at least the majority) of people leading municipalities have corrupt motives.

Maybe where you live that's what it's like, but that level of corruption is unheard of where I live, and I'm sure that's not what it's like in most of the world.

So I can't help but assume that you're negatively biased, especially because of how the objections in your comments evolved.

Time spent thinking about things in one's own control, especially what one wants, will have more positive impact on one's life than time spent thinking about things outside ones control.

I wish for you the courage to act on what's in your control and the grace to accept what's not.

Else you're likely to suffer more than you need to.

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		>Maybe where you live that's what it's like, but that level of corruption is unheard of where I live Genuinely, I'm curious where you live. I don't know how you avoid such conflicts of interest entirely. And for what might seem like the most blatant of conflicts, it doesn't mean the bid winners weren't in full compliance. You might be surprised at how non-competitive these "competitive" procurements are. People might be surprised, but nothing was necessarily fraudulent, dishonest, etc.