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    LLM Inevitabilism

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    1611 points SwoopsFromAbove | 11 comments | 15 Jul 25 04:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source | bottom
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    mlsu ◴[15 Jul 25 05:02 UTC] No.44567960[source]▶
    I hate AI. I'm so sick of it.

    I read a story about 14 year olds that are adopting AI boyfriends. They spend 18 hours a day in conversation with chatbots. Their parents are worried because they are withdrawing from school and losing their friends.

    I hate second guessing emails that I've read, wondering if my colleagues are even talking to me or if they are using AI. I hate the idea that AI will replace my job.

    Even if it unlocks "economic value" -- what does that even mean? We'll live in fucking blade runner but at least we'll all have a ton of money?

    I agree, nobody asked what I wanted. But if they did I'd tell them, I don't want it, I don't want any of it.

    Excuse me, I'll go outside now and play with my dogs and stare at a tree.

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    1. HPsquared ◴[15 Jul 25 05:05 UTC] No.44567975[source]▶
    Just remember that machines already do most of the work. Nobody ploughs fields anymore.
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    2. dilawar ◴[15 Jul 25 05:16 UTC] No.44568027[source]▶
    Those machines unlocked more work, different work, that led to better paying jobs!

    I am all up for AI if it leads to "better" work and jobs but cutting jobs to cut cost sound like a race to bottom!!

    Are AI time /cost savings going to help me pursue creative hobbies, open source, help my community without worrying about livelihood then great. If it is a means to make rich people richer by making most of us worse off, maybe we should stop and think for a while?

    There may be a risk here that a zero/negative-sum game is advertised as a positive-sum game (e.g war).

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    3. mlsu ◴[15 Jul 25 05:22 UTC] No.44568051[source]▶
    Yes, of course. What is AI freeing us of? Communicating with other human beings?

    Ah what a chore. Other human beings. Wish I could just enter into a cocoon of solitude for the rest of my life. I mean I'm kind of being glib here but the ~amazing future~ we all seem to take as inevitable has me playing solo orchestra conductor, prompt pupettering a massive fleet of hyper intelligent code bots, prompting an AI to make prompts for its sub AIs in a giant scintillating cyberprism. Talking to an AI customer service agent. Having an AI secretary. Having an AI lover.

    All alone, in the middle of it all.

    Sorry, I actually like talking to my real human colleagues!

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    4. _carbyau_ ◴[15 Jul 25 05:30 UTC] No.44568097[source]▶
    Do we have reasons why AI won't do the same "unlocked more work, different work, that led to better paying jobs" ?

    One of the issues with [a change] is that some like it and some don't - but is there any reason to believe that society will get worse as a result?

    My only real concern is meritocracy. It is hard enough already, but now rich kids can literally buy intelligence?

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    5. totallykvothe ◴[15 Jul 25 05:31 UTC] No.44568103[source]▶
    I've never agreed with an HN comment so hard as this one.
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    8. phyzome ◴[15 Jul 25 14:12 UTC] No.44571376[source]▶
    What a fascinatingly out-of-touch comment.
    9. recursive ◴[15 Jul 25 14:36 UTC] No.44571589[source]▶
    This is the setup for the matrix.
    10. mattgreenrocks ◴[15 Jul 25 15:18 UTC] No.44572066[source]▶
    It feels like some people have devalued their human experience so much that they're itching to burn off the rest of it for the hope of a technological nirvana occasionally punctuated by mundane human needs.

    AI/the Internet will never fill the void, and they know it, but like an addict they demand more in the hopes that it will. The AI girlfriend won't be enough, they'll be told to wait for AI girlfriend 2.0 to _really_ experience love. Being played for a fool long enough makes anyone jaded and cynical.

    11. ares623 ◴[16 Jul 25 08:25 UTC] No.44579950[source]▶
    I don't like talking to other people. I'm pretty sure I have social anxiety. It takes a lot of energy from me when I talk. But I will 100% choose to talk to a person than the alternative, a world where that person's worth is taken away by AI.

    Fuck this AI shit. I will not smile and hype up something that promises to take away the liberties of my children when they grow up. Because that is what they promise, a future where my children, and other children that grow up with them, will have no jobs. At the very least, I can look my kids in the eye when they ask me what the fuck happened, and tell them I did not smile and welcome it.

    "Yes, we're starving and homeless now. But for a beautiful moment in time, I was able to open 20 PRs in one day."