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We all have self-constructed identities. When threat of deconstruction presents itself, we react. E.g. my college degree isn’t worth what I thought it was, the
by steelkilt 5mo ago
We all have self-constructed identities. When threat of deconstruction presents itself, we react. E.g. my college degree isn’t worth what I thought it was, therefore I’m not the person I thought I was, therefore AI is evil, doesn’t work right, is bad for the environment, is bad for society, et. al.
“This thing makes me feel less special, therefore I don’t like it.”
- JohnFen 5mo agoI honestly don't think this is a large factor. I think a larger factor for the pushback is "this tech looks like it's going to make my life harder and more unpleasant".
- mulr00ney 5mo ago>is bad for the environment, is bad for society Can't it be those too?
- ofjcihen 5mo agoNo way, it’s definitely 100% because college kids are entitled or something.
- scrubs 5mo agoEntitled? Or something? Reactionary. At worst young kids are lazy (in selected cases only) and nieve about how work works. Entitlement comes from mental disorder or growing up in affluence like much of the upper 5%. Moreover, kids from middle to lower income brackets i think work harder, are more resilient, and take their education more seriously than those that just fall in Harvard. The underlying difference? Consequences in the real world. When you always land on your feet or feel untouchable entitlement is 6 months away to a lifetime of clueless.
- DeltaCoast 5mo agoI think the comment you are responding to meant that sarcastically.
- steelkilt 5mo agoI don’t blame them for how they feel. In fact, I feel sorry for them. Covid took a few years from them, then AI comes along and invalidates their career choices. That’s a hard case.
- ofjcihen 5mo agoOh yeah I don’t blame them at all. And to be clear that was sarcasm from my earlier comment. Nah the kids grew up in the middle of “once in a lifetime” events and are now subject to a life where what’s considered a viable career changes every 2 years or so. They’ve never known a stable world.
- steelkilt 5mo agoOf course. Multiple things can be true.
- drawfloat 5mo agoThey probably don’t like it because the AI industry has spent years saying it wants to make them all unemployed.
- steelkilt 5mo agoMost of them won’t be unemployed.
- addycb 5mo ago"Fuck you, got mine"
- danny_codes 5mo agoTale as old as boomer
- steelkilt 5mo agoActually, that’s a tale as old as humanity itself.
- steelkilt 5mo agoMost of the people I know worked pretty hard for what they have.