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This midlife crisis preceded AI, it’s sort of an inability to see the future. AI has made that more stark, but there still seems to be wide disagreement on the
by techpineapple 1y ago
This midlife crisis preceded AI, it’s sort of an inability to see the future. AI has made that more stark, but there still seems to be wide disagreement on the role of AI in any future.
- techpineapple 1y agoAlso - We kind of have everything. The only thing we don’t have, and actually the thing that’s getting worse is our basics are more expensive. I think that’s why AI is sold as the end of scarcity. Because the one big thing everyone for sure wants, and the one big thing tech kind of can’t solve. It can give you endless entertainment to click through - and oddly that may be the only thing AI ends up good at, but It can’t make manhattan cheaper to live in.
- klipt 1y agoMaybe if we built a hundred Manhattans, they'd be cheaper to live in
- yeeshh 1y agoExactly. Boomers and Silent Generation built an iron grip around the real economy and handed everyone else a virtual one to service debt in. Automation in the US could have provided our essentials going back to the 1950s. Instead of living our lives we’re told to chant made up essentialist nonsense about the stock market and corporate. American Civic Religion gibberish. Tacit ageism against next generation. We don’t owe fealty to the dying.