Comment by meowface

>And it doesn't seem to make people any better, aside from a narrow view of productivity.

This could be said about almost any new technology. Spreadsheets, word processors, nearly any tech startup.

People who use LLMs daily generally feel their lives are better because of them. Yes, including the non-"4o cultist psychosis" types.

As for harms: thoughtful AI worriers and doomers have been trying to sound those alarms for decades, but AI skeptics generally shoot it all down because it would require accepting what "hype" and "boosters" say about likely future capabilities, or something like that.