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In this analogy, horses are jobs, not humans; you could argue there's not much of a difference between the two, because people without jobs will starve, etc., b
by bambax 10mo ago
In this analogy, horses are jobs, not humans; you could argue there's not much of a difference between the two, because people without jobs will starve, etc., but still, they're not the same.
- mattmaroon 10mo agoThere is, at least, a way to avoid people without jobs starving. Whether or not we'll do it is anyone's guess. I think I'll live to see UBI but I am perphaps an optimist.
- bigfishrunning 10mo agoYou'd have to time something like UBI with us actually being able to replace the workforce -- The current LLM parlor tricks are simply not what they're sold to be, and if we rely on them too early we (humanity) is very much screwed.
- snarfy 10mo agoIt's here today - it's owning stock that produces dividends. That's capitalism.
- mattmaroon 10mo agoYeah I don't know why everyone doesn't just do that!
- ToucanLoucan 10mo agoOne would argue in a capitalist society like ours, fucking with someone's job at industrial scale isn't awfully dissimilar from threatening their life, it's just less direct. Plenty more people currently are feeling the effects of worsening job markets than have been involved in a hostage situation, but the negative end results are still the same. One would argue also if you don't see this, it's because you'd prefer not to. If we had at least a somewhat functioning safety net, or UBI, or both, you'd at least have an argument to be made, but we don't. AI and it's associated companies' business model is, if not killing people, certainly attempting to make lots of lives worse at scale. I wouldn't work for one for all the money in the world.
- FuckButtons 10mo agoUBI will not save you from economic irrelevance. The only difference between you and someone starving in a 3rd world slum is economic opportunity and the means to exchange what you have for what someone else needs. UBI is inflation in a wig and dark glasses.
- FuckButtons 10mo agoWhy make the analogy at all if not for the implied slaughter. It is a visceral reminder of our own brutal history. Of what humans do given the right set of circumstances.
- arowthway 10mo agoHow is decreasing the number of horses killed every year brutal?
- jimbokun 10mo agoWhat happened to the horses after they lost their jobs?