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Yes, I am also embarrassed to say I work in “tech” lately. It’s just not what it used to be, the new wave of job taking threats and AI harm news, social media

Yes, I am also embarrassed to say I work in “tech” lately. It’s just not what it used to be, the new wave of job taking threats and AI harm news, social media privacy and targeting, misinformation is really killing it for me personally. It’s not that I’m not optimistic about the future, but everything just seems to greed fuelled I hate it. I saw Google was training a LLM to be able to match and potentially replace Wendy’s assistants…why do that?

jossclimb 3y ago
Tech has undergone a seismic shift over just the past few years while we creaked under covid, accelerating at a quicker pace everyday. Yet our political systems are legacy, defunct and dysfunctional and chronically underprepared to handle the change that is occurring. I look at my own country (UK), and we still have an antiquated political system, full of grandiose pompous ceremony and old boys clubs, like its still 1806. We elect people like Jacob Rees Mogg to lead us, someone stuck in the 18th century about as out of touch with modern life you can get. There are no grand minds in the one area where we badly need them most.
- nly 3y ago
  Ah the UK... A country whose capital is loaded with firms figuring out how to make money trading inside a 100ns window, while everyday people struggle for months to transfer ISA assets from one account to another because the banks involved still use snail mail and cheques behind the scenes.
gumballindie 3y ago
> It’s just not what it used to be, the new wave of job taking threats and AI harm news That’s what happens when crypto bros turn ai experts over night. Their marketing strategy revolves around fud. Sam Altman at some point that tech has created huge income disparity and that needs to change. What he meant to say is that tech workers should earn less, not that others should earn more. And this philosophy reflects in openai’s toxic campaign. Now, ai is excellent tech and will stick around but there’s no reason openai should. That company should be replaced, or freed, by open source competing products asap.

jossclimb 3y ago

Tech has undergone a seismic shift over just the past few years while we creaked under covid, accelerating at a quicker pace everyday. Yet our political systems are legacy, defunct and dysfunctional and chronically underprepared to handle the change that is occurring. I look at my own country (UK), and we still have an antiquated political system, full of grandiose pompous ceremony and old boys clubs, like its still 1806. We elect people like Jacob Rees Mogg to lead us, someone stuck in the 18th century about as out of touch with modern life you can get. There are no grand minds in the one area where we badly need them most.

nly 3y ago
Ah the UK... A country whose capital is loaded with firms figuring out how to make money trading inside a 100ns window, while everyday people struggle for months to transfer ISA assets from one account to another because the banks involved still use snail mail and cheques behind the scenes.

gumballindie 3y ago

> It’s just not what it used to be, the new wave of job taking threats and AI harm news That’s what happens when crypto bros turn ai experts over night. Their marketing strategy revolves around fud. Sam Altman at some point that tech has created huge income disparity and that needs to change. What he meant to say is that tech workers should earn less, not that others should earn more. And this philosophy reflects in openai’s toxic campaign. Now, ai is excellent tech and will stick around but there’s no reason openai should. That company should be replaced, or freed, by open source competing products asap.