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> This hill is for others to climb. Perhaps it is their first hill. > This feeling is new to me. I was eager for every challenge and every change in our indust
by vouaobrasil 3y ago
> This hill is for others to climb. Perhaps it is their first hill.
> This feeling is new to me. I was eager for every challenge and every change in our industry.
You should not stop at this initial analysis. There is likely something deeper here: AI is a fundamentally different sort of innovation compared to other innovations like object-oriented programming. And we can see this on multiple levels:
Level 1, The Personal: AI is the first innovation to target creative tasks directly, thereby taking away moments of discovery, of figuring things out for yourself. It takes away the moment where all you've got is some basic documentation and you're trying to figure out how things work.
Level 2, Business and societal: AI was invented in a very different time than the transition from assembly to C, etc. It was invented in a time of global capitalism, where the goal is to push wealth and resource extraction to its logical extreme. The motivation of those who invented it are those who have a God complex and want to replace all of human labour with as much technology as possible. It is more business-motivated than human- or curiosity-motivated.
In short, AI is not a good thing. In this "intermediate" stage, programmers are giddy with AI because it is a fascinating tool no doubt, but the endgame is not to foster a greater environment of sharing. The endgame is to get programmers to make it so good that communities of people doing things together are destroyed completely for the sake of total control of society by big tech companies.
You might think you are old...but I am in by 30s and I see the exact same thing. AI is the perfect example of the law of diminishing returns that marks the intersection of two curves: the descending curve of human creativity and the ascending curve of technology as a tool for total subjugation and destruction community that you once loved so much.