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Cake day: August 27th, 2023
  • It’s not going to be benign because of how much the AI can do. I caught someone using a calculator to figure out what 15% of 7000 was the other day. They haven’t calculated anything in their head in a decade so simple mathematics have become a chore.

    Add that concept to basically 50% of tasks we do on a computer and the future starts looking grim.

    AI is basically the devil whispering in your ear that you can be as lazy as you want, I for one find it harder and harder to resist. Told myself I’d code by hand a few hours a week to keep up my skills but that went about as far as going to the gym every week. My monkey brain loves taking the easiest path.

  • Best case scenario but that’s not the one we will be getting.

    Copyright juggernauts and data brokers, the ones that actually own all the data like Reddit and universal records, will get paid.

    Open weight models won’t be allowed in business contexts or to be served online, OpenAI and company get a fat monopoly which suits them.

    People are cheering for their own doom. The handful of big AI company are going to end up owning a solid chunk of the economy. It’s basically going to be an AI tax.

    You will be replaced by an agent, OpenAI will only sell them to your employer in bulk at a stupid price so you can’t turn around and compete. That bulk price per agent will still be cheaper than your monthly wage.

    Find me one politician that even mentioned forcing these models public. It’s a fantasy.