Comment by muldvarp
3 days ago
Because the ability to create software has little inherent value to me and is only valuable to me because it allows me to earn enough to make this life somewhat bearable.
LLMs that can build a computer vision pipeline are a direct threat to my ability to sustain myself. At the same time, being able to prompt an LLM to build a computer vision pipeline doesn't really positively affect my life at all, because personally I don't care that much about computer vision pipelines (or frankly, any software).
The ability to create software accelerates technological progress, which has direct and indirect benefits for everyone.
It is true that competition could have short-term negative effect on people who sustain themselves by creating software, though.
> The ability to create software accelerates technological progress, which has direct and indirect benefits for everyone.
It has benefits for people with enough leverage (money and formerly labour) to obtain those benefits.
> It is true that competition could have short-term negative effect on people who sustain themselves by creating software, though.
I'm guessing that even if the unlikeliest of all unlikely things does happen and we all live off of some UBI some day, the short-term negative effects won't be "short-term" in the context of a human life.
> It has benefits for people with enough leverage (money and formerly labour) to obtain those benefits.
That's pretty much everyone. Even poor people benefit from technological progress.
> I'm guessing that even if the unlikeliest of all unlikely things does happen and we all live off of some UBI some day, the short-term negative effects won't be "short-term" in the context of a human life.
That depends on the pace of technological acceleration. It could be just a few years, or a decade. Which is why I am a pedal-to-the-metal accelerationist. The quicker we get through the short-term negative/turbulent phase towards the long-term positive phase, the better for me. If reversing is not possible, then going quicker is actually better than going slower. Let's get this shit over with.
More than AI, then, youre simply not made for capitalism. I can understand that..
Most humans aren't.