Comment by fifilura
4 months ago
Yes. The first programmers used computers as a necessity to get things done. Difficult mathematical calculations, a fancy control system.
This is where we should be. Using computers to solve problems. Not just "doing programming".
Raise your head, look towards the horizon.
Yes, and forget about ownership of anything too. Only rental, only hardcore, because life is but an experience, spread your wings and fly, weeee, towards our hyperprofits and your prozac dreams!
AI threads on HN reek of venture capital agendas so bad it's unbearable.
I think rather your post summarizes AI threads on HN.
Capitalism is what it is, and has been so for the last 200 years. The alternatives have always proven worse.
In my (small) country we have had many crises like this. Textile industry, shipbuilding. But we have survived by not looking back but looking into the future. And given people the right conditions for retraining.
Well, keep looking into the future and enjoy your "capitalism" then
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