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The creation is the actually enjoyable part.

Taking a helicopter to the top of Everest is not as rewarding as climbing the mountain.

You are completely discrediting the joy humans derive from actually -doing- the work, and not just, telling someone else to do the work.

There is a reason artists hate AI, its because they enjoy the actual act of painting, like mathematicians enjoy the act of proving theorems and programmers enjoy the act of typing lines of text into a file on their computer.

We are intentionally deleting all of the enjoyable high agency jobs and replacing them with "model babysitting".

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you can’t climb to the moon, you need rockets for that. In the hands of great researchers, AI will accelerate and propel human knowledge far beyond what we could achieve with pencil and paper alone.
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True, but many of us have grown identifying ourselves with the kind of work we do, the discoveries that follow from our hard work. Even in the case of rockets, we designed the rockets! Here, I've to let the oracle take care of things while I'm robbed of that delight of discovery.
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I think you replied to the wrong comment.
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> Taking a helicopter to the top of Everest is not as rewarding as climbing the mountain.

If you’re on the top of mt. Everest and you need medicine, would you care if it reached you via helicopter or via some guy climbing while having a lot of fun?

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This has nothing to do with the content of my comment.
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> There is a reason artists hate AI, its because they enjoy the actual act of painting

"AI" never stopped a painter painting.

Just selling.

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> But you will still be directing the research and involved in the creation.

Somehow I doubt it.

Maybe there won't be a need for you to be involved at all.

Maybe the AI will perform even better if you're not there to slow it down.

Maybe there will be people involved, but not as many.

Maybe there will be so many people involved that their salaries will be depressed to the point they can't afford to do it anymore, and only the rich will know such joys.

We live in interesting times. This is the age of anomie. Anything could happen. There is no set path to success anymore. The world only gets more and more illegible with every day that passes.

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I don't understand. Can't you just ask LLMs to do the same and collaborate with other LLMs?
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