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If you were alive right before industrialization, you probably would’ve been one of the people wishing that would stop too.

by boelboel1 hours ago|

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+-3 generations of British people lived in roughly the same and in many cases worse conditions (life expectancy dropped during the early industrial revolution, severely in cities). As an average person you would not have been wrong to be against it. It was only in the 1860s-1880s that conditions got better because of bargaining power of the labour class and goodwill of some rich people, two things unlikely to repeat if something like AGI really happens.

by darkstar9991 hours ago|

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Take solace remembering that we are all in the same boat.

In 1840 ~70% of the population was in agriculture. That is now ~2%. Things change.

by sthuck36 minutes ago|

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Expectations are a funny thing, a year ago I thought all software industry will cut at least 30% in a year. It's very far from happening. A big change is obviously coming but now I think I'm good enough to last at least the next 5 years, which suddenly feels like a long time if you see it coming.

The truth is despite these very impressive improvements, most impressive work done by agents require many iterations running in a loop, with tens of thousands of dollars in API pricing. And it's still far from being always reliable. Somewhere along the way hardware will get better, energy will be cheaper, the market will be flooded by chips. There a physical world issues that limit all of these for now, thank god. I think 5 years is a good number.

The real damage is that enterprise work became unbearable. Slop code with slop code review, and overly verbose emails with repetitive presentations. And on the other hand, I now enjoy "coding" for myself like I'm 16 again. All I want to do is sit at home and build apps for myself and family. I barely go to work

by spicyusername1 hours ago|

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That depression tells me you do.

by uncivilized2 hours ago|

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We’re all gonna be meat proxies

by system21 hours ago|

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Or come up with good projects that utilize these and provide services that Ai alone gannot provide.

by margorczynski1 hours ago|

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And what that would be? Prostitution?

by slopinthebag58 minutes ago|

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throughout all of human history we've responded to technological progress not by stagnating but by raising the bar. i dont see why it would be any different today. technology + human will always beat technology alone.