Comment by jonhohle
1 day ago
> I assume that by now the Company’s employees are aware of the pain and profound sense of loss that this event has caused in my professional community.
I’m trying to come to terms with this myself. I agree that this future is inevitable, and progress will come regardless.
I feel a lot like Grant in Jurassic Park right now.
Your feeling of inevitability is their private islands, mega-yachts, jets, mansions and immunity from prosecution.
No expense was spared.
Yeah it's crazy. I wonder if the lesser-educated, under-privileged, working class deplorables feel much schadenfreude about their enlightened betters who just got done with decades belittling and bullying them with "Dey terk er jerbs" and "Just learn to code" getting a bit of the treatment. Interesting times, maybe we should quit whining about AI derkin der jerbs and just learn to mine coal (to power the new datacenters).
> Yeah it's crazy. I wonder if the lesser-educated, under-privileged, working class deplorables feel much schadenfreude their enlightened betters who just got done with decades belittling and bullying them with "Dey terk er jerbs" and "Just learn to code" are getting a bit of the treatment now. Interesting times. Maybe we should just learn to mine coal (to power the new datacenters).
Which is exactly what the capitalists that own these systems want. Divide and conquer.
"Pay no attention to the men who are responsible for you situation, instead pointlessly fight amongst yourselves."
I’d love it if instead of being the next FAANG, having worked at an AI company becomes a scarlet letter both in and out of the tech industry. It’s easy to concentrate these issues on founders and execs, but Altman isn’t the one building the beast.
Contributing to these systems beyond this point should be seen as a massive failure of character. Stigmatizing to the point that they have to scrub their socials, lie about work history, and hide it from future friends or partners.
One can dream. Society does not have the integrity for this, unfortunately.
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> Which is exactly what the capitalists that own these systems want. Divide and conquer.
> "Pay no attention to the men who are responsible for you situation, instead pointlessly fight amongst yourselves."
Maybe so, but that advice is for the western left, who openly and boastfully despises the working class these days. They might have thought about that if they wanted any "working class solidarity". It's been a staggering achievement either incompetence or coordinated malice that they could flip the balance of blue collar voters to right-wing parties in a generation. They chose who they wanted to lie with.