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Oh my god I thought I'd be angry at him like I usually am when he writes another one of his sell-out pieces but I'm not even a third of the way through and my r
by conartist6 1y ago
Oh my god I thought I'd be angry at him like I usually am when he writes another one of his sell-out pieces but I'm not even a third of the way through and my response is between pity and revulsion at what he's describing.
He made his life a kind of hell I wouldn't wish my worst enemy: he's now fully a slave to the machine. What started as a sales pitch turned rapidly into a disturbingly transparent exercise in self-loathing
- conartist6 1y agoHe is sure AIs are the solution. That is the theme of all his writing. I'm sure he gets his paycheck for saying so. The problem then, as he makes clear, is the collapse of everything else. His own self-worth, for example, he finds gone at the moment it's most important to him. In the post he just sounds a little too honest, which is how engineers usually sound when they're burning out -- no mystery considering the draining relationship he describes having to his work. This is the same contradiction he cannot address elsewhere: is his talent 1000% leveraged because he is an uber-god programmer? Is he addicted to a powerful and expensive drug? Is his involvement in his work so inconsequential that he could just be playing video games? Is AI sheparding the most valuable work in society because it has unlimited potential? Or are these people just leaderboarding to slurp up a limited pool of value while dunking on the people working to expand the boundaries of what is possible in the human world?