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I know I sound like the cliche hubristic mad scientist here but, the public seems completely incapable of thinking of the potential of AI and it is deeply frust

• bojan 5mo ago
  The public is literally being told that white collar jobs are gone. What do you expect?
  • ElevenLathe 5mo ago
    ...which wouldn't be as big a deal if the blue collar factory jobs weren't also gone to the far east. Conceptually, the only non-shit jobs left to automate are artisan-style trades like plumbing and carpentry. These are great careers, and there is probably unmet demand, but they can't possibly absorb the number of new adults we're minting each year. Absent some kind of worldwide revolution, the U.S. will essentially need to start from zero and work their way up the value chain the same way China did over the last forty something years. It's a long way to the top if you wanna rock and roll.
• AllegedAlec 5mo ago
  "Hey guys, good news! You will all be made redundant by AI and we, some intellectual elite who somehow think we're not going to be affected by AI think you're going to be happy about it!"
  • ZeroGravitas 5mo ago
    "Oh also, there's a 25% chance it will end all human life, and we keep telling you this as if it's a selling point for some reason".
• gdulli 5mo ago
  It's far more concerning that so many people are incapable of understanding the reality of it.
• JohnFen 5mo ago
  > the public seems completely incapable of thinking of the potential of AI I don't think this is true at all. It's more that when faced with something that is making your life worse right now, there isn't any solace in an ephemeral speculation that it might be great in the future.
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