Does the car not check a signature or anything like that? You can just use any selfmade data?

Is it realistic to keep people working jobs that don’t get anything done in the long term? I know most people will say that’s already happening, but imagine a society where basically every job is just a bullshit job made to keep you occupied, do you think people will continue working in a society like that?

If work is needed for "crowd control", why aren't popular holiday destinations crime hotspots?

But how this transition will even happen?

Soon we will have some machines that can replace 50% of jobs, and this will happen basically overnight...

Come on, Gary is compulsive liar with zero credibility and really shitty takes. He’s entertaining though.

Gary is not a voice worth listening to. A narcissist, fraud and has terrible epistemics.

Walk current technological progress down the road.

I can't see a future in which almost every system (both physical and virtual) are not automated and optimized by autonomous entities.

What do you do when everyone is out of a job?

If you don't want pitchforks and riots in the streets, you give everyone UBI and housing so society doesn't collapse.

Climate change

It is a subset of something of a value to somebody else and enough so that they are willing to pay you for it, a product, a service. Preferably to pay enough to justify your spent time of course, maybe not right away but at least long term. Even better if not purely digital as it seems we have quite enough of those already.

Like the guy who treated cancer in his dog?

At least for me, I think half the value in building to learn was that the knowledge and skills acquired in the process, especially cursory skills and knowledge, might be useful in the future, even if there was no obvious path to application at the time.

I built several projects at home, many involving learning e.g. graphics programming and rendering, that would never be useful in my professional work, but which were intrinsically interesting and enabled me to build other, more useful projects later on. It also gave me greater confidence in my abilities as an engineer, and cursory skills I learned in the process did help in my professional work.

Now it feels like what’s the point. The machines can or will be able to build anything I could want, useful or not, faster and with less frustration. I probably won’t be able to be employed as an engineer long enough to build a career on said skills. And I can’t mentally justify not spending that time with friends and family, when the expected return is basically zero.

I still find math, science, and engineering interesting and intrinsically rewarding, but in a closer sense to how one might feel about playing video games. The information is or will eventually be useless, so it isn’t worth spending a significant amount of time on.

The flip side to ai doing your stuff in 1/10 the time is that you can now do 10x more. Even things you couldn’t do at all, in fact.

I find that very motivating. I can do things alone that would have required a team only one year ago.

Why does it matter if others are "cheating" or not? Your own creation isn't affected by it.

I used to work on this stuff. It does not make me depressed nor scared, and my coworkers didn't voice that opinion, either.

You can't cherry pick somebody's opinion and assume it applies to everybody.

But how would you feel if you imagined hitting the ball and a robot arm hit it instead?

Because that's how creating software is starting to feel.