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Your argument boils down to: it’s different this time.
by grebc 4mo ago
Your argument boils down to: it’s different this time.
- draw_down 4mo ago[dead]
- pc86 4mo agoIsn't that a perfectly fair argument if you can articulate why?
- grebc 4mo agoThere’s not much articulation except some personal snippets about someone caught in the hype cycle of a product, that the hive mind is buzzing about deafeningly. Tools/improvements have rarely been negative in such a massive way except rare instances, and even then society moved on and past those tools to bigger & better things. How many people today seriously consider agriculture as a career prospect but almost all humans who lived in the last 2000 years worked as peasant labor on a farm. We are thriving in comparison to that period of time.
- red75prime 4mo agoThis is the technology that aims to replicate all of the human functionality. So, the aim is unprecedented. You might not be convinced that this aim is achievable (despite having the human brain that achieves it, unlike, say, superluminal travel), but, at least, you might be inclined to recognize that something potentially unprecedented is going on.
- grebc 4mo agoCool. You best worry and stress yourself out about a situation you cannot control then.
- red75prime 4mo agoThe usual political means (writing to your senator or something appropriate for your country of residency) still work.
- grebc 4mo agoHave you done this since you’re concerned?
- therealdrag0 4mo agoJust because a generation or two down the line is better off does’t mean a lot of lives aren’t effected negatively when industries are destroyed or moved.
- grebc 4mo agoI guess my point is it’s rarely the transformational technology people talk it up to be. 5 years ago absolutely everyone was talking about how blockchains & ledgers were going to solve all the problems of the world, and executives needed blockchain & ledgers in their products. Now, no one cares. Not saying that happens in this case, but don’t believe the hype so easy. Even job losses in the context of a radically different policies by the current administration doesn’t get a second thought, nor does the fact we’re no longer in a low interest rate environment.
- therealdrag0 4mo agoSure don’t be gullible, of course. I was never sold on blockchain, and there was major skepticism across the industry. I only know one person who works on crypto projects, and no one who uses crypto for purchases. Yet everyone I know in engineering and non-engineers use AI for work and personal tasks. This is a different ballgame. It could be the innovation curve stops here and we only have to adapt to Claude 4 level AI. I’m sure there will be headwinds like with driverless cars. But it’s very reasonable to guess where this is going.
- grebc 4mo agoI don’t think it’s reasonable at all, but live your life as you see fit. It’s easy in retrospect to be say “sure, we were sceptical of crypto”. It certainly was not easy then to voice that, nor is it easy now to be sceptical of AI - without being labelled a Luddite or just negative. Money is a huge factor in all this, people love to discuss the current in thing and what’s more in than some tech that’s IPO’ing? Investors were making stupid money with crypto. Investors again are about to make stupid money with AI.
- petesergeant 4mo agook, so?
- grebc 4mo agoIt rarely is.
- contrast 4mo agoDid you read it? The argument boils down to: this is exactly the same as other times. And provides multiple examples.
- watwut 4mo agoHe literally did not provided multiple examples of such a thing.
- noodletheworld 4mo agoYes; that is literally the opposite of what this article does.
- raincole 4mo agoThe article: it's different this time because X and Y. You: you're saying "it's different this time." I don't know. It looks like AI really rots people's brains. As if that they just shut down their minds when they see an anything AI-related. Imagine if this article were about anything else, like: Article: the stock bubble is going to burst because... Comment: your argument boils down to "the stock bubble is going to burst." It'd be so stupid. But somehow when it comes to AI this kind of weird comment is tolerated even celebrated.