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That's exactly it. This person does not understand the coercive competition of the market. If you don't use new tech, you are going to be undercut by people who
by chungusamongus 6mo ago
That's exactly it. This person does not understand the coercive competition of the market. If you don't use new tech, you are going to be undercut by people who do. And every HR dept is going to expect to to have experience with AI even if the department that’s hiring doesn't really use it. If the author's supposed solution to the problem has negative personal consequences, why would you do it? To be nice?
- miltonlost 6mo agoBecause I don't like the feeling my conscience gives me by doing something I think is evil and bad. Some people have moral lines that they won't cross when finding jobs. If my competitors are filling their flour with sawdust, guess I got to just do the same?
- fnimick 6mo agoNo, we won't do the same, but enough people will that it doesn't matter. Such is the way it goes.
- nradov 6mo agoYour moral compass is skewed. Customers don't care what tools we use, they just want products that work. Is a wheat farmer who ploughs a field with horses more moral than one who uses a tractor? The resulting flour tastes the same either way.
- Glemllksdf 6mo agoIts not the same. Its clearly shit to replace flour with sawdust. Having different opinions on AI/LLMs doesn't make the use of it the same as replacing flour with sawdust. The AI 'image' slop for example, i don't think its bad. But i also don't think it takes anything from a real artist. It takes jobs from people with drawing skills but it doesn't change anything for an artist.
- throwanem 6mo agoNo. I'm doing it because I care more whether I can live with myself than whether I impress people with the name of who I work for. Hence much of my recent comment history here, for example. I don't want any of these people getting the idea they should want me to work with them, either. I do want my name on every industry blacklist I can possibly get it on. Those will eventually be revealed - remember Franklin's dictum, fellas! That shit always comes out in the end - and I look forward to that day with pleased and eager anticipation. At the moment I'm more looking at menial work for one of the local universities. Money is money, and my needs are small; the work is honest, I still should have a decade or so of physical labor left in me, and it carries the perk of free tuition for the degree I never had time for. I would have the time and energy to write, perhaps, even! And, however badly the people in charge are running things lately, the world will always need someone good at cleaning a toilet. (And I am already pretty good at cleaning a toilet!)
- chungusamongus 6mo agoThat's nice for you but other people have kids to feed and don't particularly care about your little crusade, which will fail.
- throwanem 6mo agoGo look in a mirror, not at me. That's where the argument is waiting that you're feeling urged toward.
- chungusamongus 6mo agoWhat you just said was an elaborate tu quoque fallacy. You aren't comprehending my basic point, which is that individual ethical decisions are not going to make a difference when all of the broader incentives are causing people to act otherwise.
- EinigeKreise 6mo agoThe idea behind principles is that you're supposed to stick to them anyways.
- djaro 6mo agoThis is only true if the new technology is actually significantly useful. Which so far AI has not proven to be. Theres no reason to assume people using AI will, on the long term, outcompete those who don't.