Comment by chii
12 hours ago
> I’m basically just the conductor of all those processes.
a car moves faster than you, can last longer than you, and can carry much more than you. But somehow, people don't seem to be scared of cars displacing them(yet)? Perhaps autodriving would in the near future, but there still needs to be someone making decisions on how best to utilize that car - surely, it isn't deciding to go to destination A without someone telling them.
> I feel like I’m doing the work of an entire org that used to need twenty engineers.
and this is great. A combine harvester does the work of what used to be an entire village for a week in a day. More output for less people/resources expended means more wealth produced.
> a car moves faster than you, can last longer than you, and can carry much more than you. But somehow, people don't seem to be scared of cars displacing them(yet)?
People whose life were based around using horses for transportation were very scared of cars replacing them though, and correctly so, because horses for transportation is something people do for leisure today, not necessity. I feel like that's a more apt analogy than comparing cars to any human.
> More output for less people/resources expended means more wealth produced.
This is true, but it probably also means that this "more wealth produced" will be more concentrated, because it's easier to convince one person using AI that you should have half of the wealth they produce, rather than convincing 100 people you should have half of what they produce. From where I'm standing, it seems to have the same effects (but not as widespread or impactful, yet) as industrialization, that induced that side-effect as well.
Analogies are not going to work. Bug it's just as likely that, in the worst case, we are stage coach drivers who have to use cars when we just really love the quiet slowness of horses.
And parent is scared of being made redundant by AI because they need their job to pay for their car, insurance, gas and repairs.
> a car moves faster than you, can last longer than you, and can carry much more than you. But somehow, people don't seem to be scared of cars displacing them(yet)?
???
Cars replaced horses, not people.
In this scenario you are the horse.
Well no, you'd be the horse driver who becomes a car driver
> Well no, you'd be the horse driver who becomes a car driver
Well, that's the crux of the argument. The pro-AI devs are making the claim that devs are the horse-drivers, the anti-AI is making the claim that devs are the horses themselves.
There is no objective way to verify who is right in this case, we just have to see it play out.
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