AI is totally coming for our jobs, and my "doom and gloom" sense is that this is the beginning of the Fourth Industrial Revolution Andrew Yang warned of not so long ago. I agree with your assessment that masters of their craft will be alright. There's a robot arm barista in a mall in San Francisco that makes a hell of a latte, but the uncanny valley feeling of paying a machine to do it makes me wonder if human interaction will become a luxury commodity in the not so distant future.
Some Christian transhumanist on a podcast I listened to about a month ago suggested that the Rapture could have been a metaphor for singularity, and I think about that a lot. Even before the OpenAI hype as of late, people have been glued to technology for the better part of the last decade, hypnotized and influenced by it, basically cyborgs. Technology feeds culture as much as the inverse is true. Ezra Klein has talked a lot about AI on his podcast lately, and one of his concerns is that our ever increasing potential for freedom and efficiency will be matched with noise and infinite distractions, like now but on steroids. I think that's a fair forecast to make.
ChatGPT has been amazing for my meal prep game, though. Also, as a stand in therapist. Also to plan my garden based on season and hardiness zone. Not so great at calculus tutoring, but you can't win em all, right?
I go to this part if you using ChatGPT though. We hate the machines. We fear the machines. And yet, we want the machines to help us. We want their shortcuts and structure. It’s interesting.
And it’s too bad a robot can make a good latte and a decent gardening plan. But maybe we don’t need the best people on each case. What exactly do we need them for them?
I think every person truly has worth for just being a person, and not relating it to their productivity. But how can one enact the worth of just being and survive in the modern economy. I think the freedom dividend isn’t a bad idea in that respect.
AI is totally coming for our jobs, and my "doom and gloom" sense is that this is the beginning of the Fourth Industrial Revolution Andrew Yang warned of not so long ago. I agree with your assessment that masters of their craft will be alright. There's a robot arm barista in a mall in San Francisco that makes a hell of a latte, but the uncanny valley feeling of paying a machine to do it makes me wonder if human interaction will become a luxury commodity in the not so distant future.
Some Christian transhumanist on a podcast I listened to about a month ago suggested that the Rapture could have been a metaphor for singularity, and I think about that a lot. Even before the OpenAI hype as of late, people have been glued to technology for the better part of the last decade, hypnotized and influenced by it, basically cyborgs. Technology feeds culture as much as the inverse is true. Ezra Klein has talked a lot about AI on his podcast lately, and one of his concerns is that our ever increasing potential for freedom and efficiency will be matched with noise and infinite distractions, like now but on steroids. I think that's a fair forecast to make.
ChatGPT has been amazing for my meal prep game, though. Also, as a stand in therapist. Also to plan my garden based on season and hardiness zone. Not so great at calculus tutoring, but you can't win em all, right?
All interesting!
I go to this part if you using ChatGPT though. We hate the machines. We fear the machines. And yet, we want the machines to help us. We want their shortcuts and structure. It’s interesting.
And it’s too bad a robot can make a good latte and a decent gardening plan. But maybe we don’t need the best people on each case. What exactly do we need them for them?
I think every person truly has worth for just being a person, and not relating it to their productivity. But how can one enact the worth of just being and survive in the modern economy. I think the freedom dividend isn’t a bad idea in that respect.