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So...what does it cost you?

• encomiast 7mo ago
  Goethe answered this in Faust. The answer is always: your soul.
  • dventimi 7mo ago
    Can you be more precise?
    • Towaway69 7mo ago
      If you sell your soul to the devil, don’t expect to make a profit.
      • dventimi 7mo ago
        I'll take that as a "no".
    • encomiast 7mo ago
      uh...okay. The legend of Faust is the classic work where a person sells his soul to the devil for power/knowledge/pleasure. Goethe has Faust make a wager with the Mephistopheles: show me the good life (pleasure, power, knowledge, whatever) it will never be enough to make me stop striving, to make me want to linger. If you can do that my soul is yours. To me it reads a _lot_ like our contract with AI.
      • dventimi 7mo ago
        I don't have a contract with AI.
        • encomiast 7mo ago
          It was meant metaphorically. It gives you something, but it asks for something in return.
          • adampunk 7mo ago
            so like...JavaScript?
          • dventimi 7mo ago
            "Cost" is a matter of personal judgement. Personally, using AI hasn't cost me anything.