Comment by muldvarp
2 months ago
> It's been fun watching the cope collapse from day to day. No one told me a slow takeoff Singularity would have so much schadenfreude.
I'm constantly surprised at how much schadenfreude there is on hacker news about LLMs. Like, do you guys (and girls) not have to work for a living?
I don't. I'm retired.
I'm also not going to live all that much longer, most likely, so it's kind of annoying I'm not really going to see any upsides to an AI world either. I'm discounting the possibility of our AI overlords figuring out a miracle like reversing aging.
But it is really f-ing cool that automated math is now a thing and we are seeing it. Eat your heart out, past me.
> so it's kind of annoying I'm not really going to see any upsides to an AI world either
I don't think the "permanent underclass" will see many upsides either. They certainly won't have the money to pay for it. I'm excluding myself in that statement because luckily I have access to large amounts of barbiturates.
The math community was not a global underclass. World wealth is increasing, the actual global underclass is seeing rapidly improving lives.
You may be seeing a loss of privilege due at least in part to the inevitable reversion to the mean of US economic dominance. But on a global scale, things are going well. AI will lead to a much larger pie.
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