Comment by johnfn
4 months ago
It is astounding to me that people are not excited for the future. I live in a moment in time where I can ask AI to do something and it can think about it rationally, work on it for an hour, and basically do what I want. This is incredible and amazing.
You are a carriage horse excited about the invention of the automobile, thinking “it will free me up from so much labor!”
When did I say anything like “it will free me up from so much labor!”? This is not even remotely close to what I believe. You are responding to a caricature of me you have in your head.
> I can ask AI to do something and it can… work on it for an hour, and basically do what I want
Again, you are excited about the future of a technology that is rapidly making you obsolete. It is not going to go how you think it is going to go.
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More like a horse carriage owner no? I don't think the horses used to have a merry time dragging around a huge carriage with multiple people in it.
Cars replaced horses. AI replaces humans.
The carriage owners in this metaphor are the capital class.
How many AI companies do you own?
The worst people on the planet have this ability as well.
The worst people on the planet already have access to guns, bioweapons and refined uranium. Somehow I am still alive and mostly fine.