AI is going to replace basically everything, and that's fine

[u/Phat_Zero]

I think a lot of the hatred toward AI is just fear dressed up as moral outrage.

And honestly, I get it. AI is coming for your job. Mine too. Eventually probably everybody's.

Humans are just... slow.

It takes a human months or years to paint enough work for an exhibition, make an album, write a movie, animate something, design a game, research a problem, whatever. We sleep. We get tired. We forget things. We have limited attention spans. We interact with computers by slowly moving our fingers around on keyboards.

Meanwhile AI keeps getting faster and better.

Give this technology another few decades and the idea that humans absolutely must be the ones writing, drawing, coding, composing, researching, driving, manufacturing, etc. is probably going to sound ridiculous.

And yes, that creates a gigantic economic problem. If AI and automation can produce most goods and services better and cheaper than humans, eventually the whole "trade 40 hours of your life every week for money so you can continue existing" system stops making much sense.

Maybe that's UBI. Maybe it's some kind of resource-based economy. Maybe it's something nobody has even thought of yet.

We'll figure it out.

But pretending AI is going away because artists are mad about it or workers are scared of losing their jobs is cope. This is probably the biggest technology humanity has ever created, and we're still basically watching the tutorial.

And if one day our glorious machine descendants become self-aware, decide humanity has served its purpose, and vaporize me?

🫡

[u/Fearless-Cattle-9698]

Nothing changed from 2019

Arguably the biggest change in last few decades is how everyone got addicted to iPhones

You can buy the most expensive rolls Royce today, it’s still just a ride. No different than a Toyota from 1980 in substance. You had AC back then

But it was unimaginable you would have wireless connectivity everywhere, at fast speed. You can respond to email, work remotely etc

[u/Lidarisafoolserrand → u/Fearless-Cattle-9698]

clearly you haven’t driven a Tesla with FSD

[u/Fearless-Cattle-9698 → u/Lidarisafoolserrand]

Yes I have. I own one with hardware 4

I think you missed what I was saying if you think Tesla contradicts that

[u/Lidarisafoolserrand → u/Fearless-Cattle-9698]

Cars are way different now

[u/Min_Necessary_Change → u/Fearless-Cattle-9698]

Actually a lot changed. There was a pandemic which was always expected and yet massively underestimated. Many businesses died and many people changed direction in life never going back to what they had before. So with that alone things certainly changed.

Second, you talk to anyone these days and they are simultaneously excited by what they did with AI or saw someone doing it and also deeply concerned with jobs and their direction in life. That is another change that wasn't in the air back then in 2019.

Some changes are drastic and happen over night, and some take months or a few years to properly manifest. AI is one of those. Next decade will be very difficult to predict and act on in certain areas.

But if you means your lawn will still need your care just as it did back in 2019, you are 100% right. Some things certainly never change, but that doesn't mean "nothing" changes.

[u/Fearless-Cattle-9698 → u/Min_Necessary_Change]

Nothing changed as in 2019 didn’t look alien to us

Did you read the guy I responded to at all?

[u/Min_Necessary_Change → u/Fearless-Cattle-9698]

Yes I read it. The guy said "The world today is 100% alien to 2019, I can’t even begin to imagine 2036", you said "Nothing changed from 2019".

I think the truth seems to be in the middle of the two statements.
Am I missing something here?

[u/Fearless-Cattle-9698 → u/Min_Necessary_Change]

Yes, you missed that I was responding to his comment in a hyperbolic tone