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Here's the question I want to posit and nobody who's against AI has managed to answer satisfactorily: what is it in for me if I were to acquire all those skills

by erxam 5mo ago

Here's the question I want to posit and nobody who's against AI has managed to answer satisfactorily: what is it in for me if I were to acquire all those skills? I don't give a shit about this career. I don't give a shit about engineering. I despise every second of it. There's nothing to aim for other than being a drone that does whatever is asked of it. If AI can reduce my mental workload, why wouldn't I want to delegate everything over to it so I can save my faculties for what I truly enjoy? For the art of a worthless craft?

_pdp_ 5mo ago
Some people enjoy working with computers. :) It is not always about the money. It is also about having fun and learning new things. For you, it seems that you are not cut for it judging from what you say. So yes, use LLMs.
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sumeno 5mo ago
Why are you employable if the AI does everything for you?
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- erxam 5mo ago
  Mostly to do the work that AI can't do just yet. I've got the feeling that, by the time AI can do those jobs, we'll be mired in bigger issues.
LtWorf 5mo ago
I mean… there's other jobs in the world. If you chose to do something you hate, that's maybe a bit your fault too?
- erxam 5mo ago
  Tell me where these mythical jobs that won't leave me broke as shit and that I'll enjoy are. I'm very much a humanities person, and it was already a sad tragicomedy of a sphere before AI hit the ground. It's probably even more dire now, let's be real. And I don't have the personality for running a start-up or any company, unfortunately. I'm extremely risk-averse and withdrawn. If I really had no other choice, I'd probably have to budget in a ton of... chemical helpers (stimulants).
  - LtWorf 5mo ago
    I think you hate life in general more than just your job. Anyway statistician, accountant, teacher, are indeed jobs, and I assure you they aren't found living on the streets.
    - erxam 5mo ago
      >I think you hate life in general more than just your job. Well, yeah, I do. I don't even have a good reason to, I'm just fundamentally incomplete and wrong. >Anyway statistician, accountant, teacher, are indeed jobs, and I assure you they aren't found living on the streets. That's true, I suppose. It's too late now, though. I'd have to start from scratch and probably go to college again, which I fucking despised and I wanted everyone around me dead. I like to whine, but this career was the least bad choice. I just wish there were good ones.

by erxam 5mo ago

_pdp_ 5mo ago

Some people enjoy working with computers. :) It is not always about the money. It is also about having fun and learning new things. For you, it seems that you are not cut for it judging from what you say. So yes, use LLMs.

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sumeno 5mo ago

Why are you employable if the AI does everything for you?

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erxam 5mo ago
Mostly to do the work that AI can't do just yet. I've got the feeling that, by the time AI can do those jobs, we'll be mired in bigger issues.

LtWorf 5mo ago

I mean… there's other jobs in the world. If you chose to do something you hate, that's maybe a bit your fault too?

erxam 5mo ago
Tell me where these mythical jobs that won't leave me broke as shit and that I'll enjoy are. I'm very much a humanities person, and it was already a sad tragicomedy of a sphere before AI hit the ground. It's probably even more dire now, let's be real. And I don't have the personality for running a start-up or any company, unfortunately. I'm extremely risk-averse and withdrawn. If I really had no other choice, I'd probably have to budget in a ton of... chemical helpers (stimulants).
- LtWorf 5mo ago
  I think you hate life in general more than just your job. Anyway statistician, accountant, teacher, are indeed jobs, and I assure you they aren't found living on the streets.
  - erxam 5mo ago
    >I think you hate life in general more than just your job. Well, yeah, I do. I don't even have a good reason to, I'm just fundamentally incomplete and wrong. >Anyway statistician, accountant, teacher, are indeed jobs, and I assure you they aren't found living on the streets. That's true, I suppose. It's too late now, though. I'd have to start from scratch and probably go to college again, which I fucking despised and I wanted everyone around me dead. I like to whine, but this career was the least bad choice. I just wish there were good ones.