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Well, this is what future LLMs are for. Somewhere I saw a great quote about "AIs having meetings with AIs" and essentially doing nothing... But doing nothing v
by brucethemoose2 3y ago
Well, this is what future LLMs are for.
Somewhere I saw a great quote about "AIs having meetings with AIs" and essentially doing nothing... But doing nothing very efficiently.
And if this makes leaders uncomfortable by undermining the original human busywork, good.
- giraffe_lady 3y agoUnfortunately we have somehow chosen to create a world where when a computer takes over your job this is bad for you.
- adam_arthur 3y agoBecause many only look at first order consequences and ignore anything beyond that. Despite history having a huge number of societally enhancing innovations to reference that also took jobs at the time.
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- Clent 3y agoWhere this historical changes also aligned with decades of wage stagnation? I'm not buy this shit anymore. Most technological advances are economic enhancing innovations, society be damned! The technology being developed today is consolidating wealth at the top. No one is getting from the gig economy. Stock holders on the other hand? Doing amazing!
- bboygravity 3y agoOr. It's entirely possible that the currency inflation is caused by something completely unrelated (central banks and government spending/lending) and you're confusing correlating events (the development of new technologies and decrease in buying power) with causation.
- dragontamer 3y ago> The technology being developed today is consolidating wealth at the top. No one is getting from the gig economy. The top level Tax Rate has declined from 91% tax rate to 37% tax rate from 1950s through 2020s, and you blame technology for the failure of our society to redistribute wealth?
- giraffe_lady 3y agoSo? I don't claim otherwise. The fact that a life ground to dust is an effective lubricant for the engine of progress or whatever is not comforting or righteous. Maybe you could stand to consider the first order consequences a little more.
- adam_arthur 3y agoFeeding the poor via technological advances lowering cost of food production is not righteous in your opinion? Despite those agricultural workers who lost their jobs. Innovation in aggregate benefits most people in the long run via lessening real costs of goods. Producing goods in an inefficient manner raises the real cost of living for society. Was life better when the average person spent 80% of their income on food? Will life be worse for the average person when goods and services become 50% cheaper through AI driven automation?
- barrysteve 3y agoFirst order consequences are still consequences. Forcing people into second order thinking is forcing submission. Making some fantasy up about improving the lives of foreigners (and tech companies cash flow) at the expense of your neighbour is peak humanism.
- willcipriano 3y agoYou can always shovel coal into the massive furnaces that power the AI bots.
- FirmwareBurner 3y agoWhat's ironic is the sci-fi future we dreamt was one where robots took over the back breaking work, letting humanity focus on arts, sciences and philosophy, but the reality we got is one where humans are still responsible for a lot of the back breaking work, while AI robots are now writing movie scripts, composing music and painting paintings.
- nine_zeros 3y agoCan someone invent an AI bot that will attend standup on my behalf?
- a_bonobo 3y agoOne of Graeber's points not included in OP's article is that these jobs partially exist as a signal of power: the big manager needs to show status by having three EAs, not just one, even though three EAs do not much. LLMs can't replace power-signaling and politics!