Comment by a2ff6eeb0
11 hours ago
I don't think there's any chance people will be employed to sell the output of their brains in 20 years, outside of "athletes", or whatever we end up calling people who think for sport. We mostly succeeded at doing this with muscles, and today there's no market for hauling rocks out of quarries manually. We're in the process of doing that for brains too.
AI will outdo people in all practical uses. We're already there for debugging and getting very close for coding, and we're in the middle of the largest investment in human history to expand that to everything else.
If we do a good job of alignment, AI will treat people like those cats "in charge" of train stations in Japan: our every need will be accommodated, but we won't be controlling things we don't understand.
There will always be creative superstars.
Of course. But they're going to be machines. I don't think there's magic that makes the human brain impossible to automate. And engineering is going to lead to faster improvements than evolution could.
lol yeah sure. AI sucks and always will.
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And why would we accept this passively? For one, I will be in the hills with my rebel "compañeros" should things get that bad.
If that's how you feel, you'd better get started -- we've already got AI writing most of the posts on this site, handling frontier maths, writing most of the commercial code at most startups, and its capabilities are growing real fast.