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My biggest gripe with AI is that I struggle to come up with even one real problem that it has solved in my daily life, and that of my family and friends. Yes i

My biggest gripe with AI is that I struggle to come up with even one real problem that it has solved in my daily life, and that of my family and friends. Yes it might have made me a bit faster at some things I do for work. But it seems to me that we face so many challenges as a civilization, and AI doesn’t actively help with any of them? Unless you buy into the narrative that it will somehow usher in a golden age of abundance where everyone is taken care of and nobody needs to work anymore (utter BS in my opinion). The amount of capital flowing into it, that is then not available for other causes, is completely mind-boggling to me.

overgard 3mo ago
> My biggest gripe with AI is that I struggle to come up with even one real problem that it has solved in my daily life, and that of my family and friends. I wish I could upvote this a thousand times, because this is exactly my experience as well. It's made a few things slightly more convenient, but convenience is not exactly a problem in my life! And yet, it's actively damaging a lot of things I care about in a way that I think is going to be extremely bad for society.
- fragmede 3mo ago
  Outside of coding, LLMs have helped me formulate thoughts and have conversations with people that I could never have had without AI. Thorny prickly people problems that previously would have required a therapist and a counselor and group sessions and many meetings can be worked through because I didn't have the volcabulary or expressiveness to say things before. That's not a convenience thing, oh Doordash for milk instead of having to go to the store, that's life changing.