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Man, I wish I had your optimism. I can see us entering "post-work", but that's only because those who own the means of production no longer require us, and our
by SketchySeaBeast 1y ago
Man, I wish I had your optimism. I can see us entering "post-work", but that's only because those who own the means of production no longer require us, and our resulting crises will be much lower on Maslow's Heirarchy of Needs.
- generic92034 1y agoProduction for whom, though? At least any growth paradigm immediately dies without a mass of consumers. Billionaires can only consume so much.
- SketchySeaBeast 1y agoWell, at the moment both "growth" and "wealth" have been removed from a lot humanity, having been abstracted into a market that most people can barely, if at all, participate in, and that has nearly entirely moved away from "you're worth $x because you make x widgets". I can't image that will disappear.
- generic92034 1y agoYes, but will the powers that be accept a future without growth?
- SketchySeaBeast 1y agoI'm not convinced that the indicators they use for growth would stop increasing. As people are so quick to point out, most of these people's worth is in the market, and that stopped being a rational actor a long while ago.
- Sateeshm 1y agoAre you talking about LLMs?
- SketchySeaBeast 1y agoI'm talking about the belief that somehow AI will eventually do all our jobs for us. I don't personally believe that LLMs will get anywhere close to that.
- Insanity 1y agoYeah, I'm definitely agreeing with you on this. Which is why I think we're probably decades out from a post-work society. I do think it's inevitable, but in an optimistic kind of way. My take is that an LLM is not ever going to lead to AGI, it's fundamentally the wrong paradigm to develop true intelligence. Either way, I doubt that will happen in my lifetime and I don't spend any time worrying about it.
- SketchySeaBeast 1y agoI spend time worrying about the people who are trying to convince people it'll happen in our lifetime.