| ▲ | wcfrobert 2 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A few snippets from his full post here: https://gwern.net/guardian-angel. > "The chatbot personas are deeply misaligned with you, and aligned with their owners; and the economic incentives are to farm you with ads and subscriptions, while racing not to amplify you but to replace you." > "On my visits to the Bay Area, I would ask AI researchers or interns why they are doing their current research or projects, when in a year or three agentic LLMs could probably do them; they rarely had a good answer, or any idea what they would be doing in 3 years" > "One programmer driving 10 Claude instances, because he has to review their work, will never be as valuable as fully autonomous Claudes where there can be almost arbitrarily many instances, like 10,000 instances… but such scaling requires removing him from the loop as much as possible. And this is true of everyone else, whether lawyers or writers or researchers: increasingly, you are the bottleneck to be optimized away." I fully support the 3 core principles of GA: (1) Enhancement, not replacement (2) Mental Sovereignty (3) Self Actualization, which I think is a path to a more humane future. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | thi2 6 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
> > "On my visits to the Bay Area, I would ask AI researchers or interns why they are doing their current research or projects, when in a year or three agentic LLMs could probably do them; they rarely had a good answer, or any idea what they would be doing in 3 years" I heard this already when ChatGpt came up. Still waiting to be fully obsolete. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | artyom an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Leaving AI completely aside, it still amazes me that people finds "novel" the idea of removing highly-paid white collar intellectual workers (software developers or otherwise) completely out of the loop. No-code platforms date back to the 80's. Getting rid of engineers in general is even older [*]. Even relational databases and SQL were initially promoted as "ways to get rid of those expensive programmers to access your data" because they resembled some form of English. The funny thing about the ad below is that stuff like "stop hiring / get rid of humans" would have been seen as highly insensitive in 1950's America, so they touted that as "put them to do something more important". [*] https://www.globalnerdy.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/200... | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
