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It's certainly possible that the author believes their blog post is going to spark a movement or contribute in some way, as a sort of political act, to society'

It's certainly possible that the author believes their blog post is going to spark a movement or contribute in some way, as a sort of political act, to society's rejection of AI and therefore the ultimate salvation of their career as an AI-illiterate "creative". But giving them the benefit of the doubt for a moment, it might be more likely that they simply are aware that many such people exist already and are apt to click on a post such as this in order to have their opinions repeated back to them cathartically. The idea that a growing mass of social media posts can go critical and blast a hole in reality is, on the other hand, extremely popular these days.

bitpush 1y ago
I'm not saying I like all of this, or I dont worry about the future. But then again, WHO AM I to think that others are gonna "make things worse" or "not be given this power". Democratizing tools, knowledge, access has always been messy. Think of the days when books were restricted to only elites. Explosion of ideas happened once it was opened up, but it was also messy. We progress when everybody is empowered, and I see AI giving super powers to all of them. Will it be messy? 100% but we'll come out it better than what we have today.
- absurdo 1y ago
  IMHO actual worry has to be tempered by action. Blog posting is a short term relief from the pent up emotions. There are doomers that doompost and doomscroll, and doomers that prep and give themselves a buffer. The world’s wealthiest people build bunkers and buy real estate and agriculturally healthy land across the globe because they’re doomers at heart and can’t shake the feeling of needing to prep for any disaster at any moment. So it’s not just the tinfoilers that have this mentality. Unfortunately HN predominantly caters to the doomposters and doomscrollers, and then somewhere the shitposters that thrive on performative acting of outrage, fright, drama, and so on to perpetuate the cycle and milk it to its full extent. I’m not saying go out get some 25-year shelf life MREs and move to a very LCOL area and start growing vegetables in case you need to get through a particularly peckish winter, but humanity as a whole has lived through worse situations and no idea is off the table if its time has come. I imagine a lot of people are very averse to losing what they have, being set back in their life in some way and seeing others unfairly benefit and perhaps unfairly benefit from their hard work. I don’t have an answer for this that actually solves the issue at heart. We won’t be holding hands and singing Kumbaya any time soon and weather events certainly don’t mind razing entire states. Starting resistance movements and communities is great but hard, unrewarding work with no guarantee of success.

bitpush 1y ago

I'm not saying I like all of this, or I dont worry about the future. But then again, WHO AM I to think that others are gonna "make things worse" or "not be given this power". Democratizing tools, knowledge, access has always been messy. Think of the days when books were restricted to only elites. Explosion of ideas happened once it was opened up, but it was also messy. We progress when everybody is empowered, and I see AI giving super powers to all of them. Will it be messy? 100% but we'll come out it better than what we have today.

absurdo 1y ago
IMHO actual worry has to be tempered by action. Blog posting is a short term relief from the pent up emotions. There are doomers that doompost and doomscroll, and doomers that prep and give themselves a buffer. The world’s wealthiest people build bunkers and buy real estate and agriculturally healthy land across the globe because they’re doomers at heart and can’t shake the feeling of needing to prep for any disaster at any moment. So it’s not just the tinfoilers that have this mentality. Unfortunately HN predominantly caters to the doomposters and doomscrollers, and then somewhere the shitposters that thrive on performative acting of outrage, fright, drama, and so on to perpetuate the cycle and milk it to its full extent. I’m not saying go out get some 25-year shelf life MREs and move to a very LCOL area and start growing vegetables in case you need to get through a particularly peckish winter, but humanity as a whole has lived through worse situations and no idea is off the table if its time has come. I imagine a lot of people are very averse to losing what they have, being set back in their life in some way and seeing others unfairly benefit and perhaps unfairly benefit from their hard work. I don’t have an answer for this that actually solves the issue at heart. We won’t be holding hands and singing Kumbaya any time soon and weather events certainly don’t mind razing entire states. Starting resistance movements and communities is great but hard, unrewarding work with no guarantee of success.