Technology

You give jobs today, too much credit. We have a danish book called: "How we got busy doing Nothing" (translated) which describes how more and more workers, which needs to work a 37 hour week, had to come up with fucked up processes just to make the job a little more complicated, how meetings has been the new norm instead of doing actual work. When I red the article, this is the people I am thinking of. Agile coaches, middle leaders, schedulers, people who manually put data into sheets documents. This is a lot of fucking people, atleast at my office. I am not scared (yet) since I still manage all the hardware componants in the car-rooms etc. But all the other people. What will they do when a 18EUR/month AI can replace a 4685EUR/Month co-worker?

But it can be sold as good enough to credulous management, thereby still doing damage by getting people laid off in the short term.

There's this famous quote about investing which goes: "the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent". I think that equally holds for the labor market. Just because you and everyone around you knows your job can't be replaced by AI, doesn't mean there won't be an attempt to replace you which lasts long enough for you to lose your house.

you guys keep saying this but I know a company or two companies or a lot of companies actually

Based on your description, I expected the article to be worthless (and it definitely was worthless!), but I didn't expect the author to start breathlessly talking about Steve Bannon as if he's some paragon of populist "AI safety" wisdom that transcends the Republican and Democrat parties.

For anybody who's not aware, Steve Bannon is a key architect of the first and second Trump administration. And the fact that Bannon is part of the AI safety grift, which should be a red flag that it is a bad thing, this author twists it into a green flag that Bannon might be a good guy after all.

I’ve found that to be the case more and more with The Atlantic in recent years: long articles that might sound impressive but don’t actually say much or could’ve said things much more succinctly. I usually don’t read their articles anymore.

I don't feel at all like I'm the smartest person in any given room, but lately I feel like the movie idiocracy. Where I'm just some average guy, and the rest of the world is letting AI do their thinking for them. The end result is, crops won't grow, because the lot of you are trying to water them with gatoraide. Top scientists in the country are so blinded by why science fails them, never realizing it's because gatoraide controls the farming industry, and helps write the laws to ensure further grasp of control. Regardless of results.

And everybody else just goes with it. What will happen in the future? Click this article to read about it! Answer: No one knows what would happen if you water plants with water.

Here is how the AI experiment plays out.....

Corporations cling and force this stuff down our throats, despite it not working. They do this for 2-3 generations to normalize it. With time and tech advancements they continue to develop it.

They keep using it where people don't push back. Which for AI, is most things. I don't see a major pushback on google including AI in search results. I don't see a major pushback from MOST people on AI being in every element of Windows 11. I see people here hating on microsoft, but linux users are like 4% of the market.

So they continue using the stuff people don't rock the boat over, while not improving services. Eventually they get more and more of these AI services in every aspect of your life.

The one place they spend all their effort improving is survailance. Watching you watch yourself, and sending them the data.

Alexa could listen for "Hey Alexa" or it could listen for sneezing. Then send that information to HQ where they can now sell that data, that you sneeze 37 times per day in the spring, or 3 times a day in the winter.

Now your insurance rates go up for allergy medication before you even see your doctor.

Thats just one example. Like one dot of a painting of millions of dots. But it all starts with people who don't have critical thinking skills. They just don't even question why TVs in the 90s were expensive, but by 2020 they were basically free.

So they buy their cheap smart tvs, and smart fridge, and everything else. Happy as can be. Not even realizing that its all just corporations bringing us closer and closer to 1984.

And in 30 years, not having a smartphone will be illegal. Not having a trackable device with you 24/7 will be illegal. They'll justify it by saying "think of the children!". And people will fall for it, yet again. Just as they always do.

Not just one article, several. That was a particular disgusting time in their history. There was no nuance.

Oh wow, somehow I missed both of those things. Shit.

And let's not forget the asinine claim about music composition. Yeah, this is a bullshit fluff piece to keep attention on AI.

This is why I get so frustrated when people demand I integrate this stuff into every workflow. It’s not thinking at all. It’s just regurgitating text based on input and hoping for the best.

LodeMike, I'm curious about something. What's the latest set of AI models and tools you've used personally? Have you used Opus 4.5 or 4.6, for instance?

I am not disagreeing with the points you've made, but it's been my experience that the increase in capabilities over the last six months has been so rapid that it's hard to realistically evaluate what the current frontier models are capable of unless you've uused them meaningfully and with some frequency.

I'd welcome your perspective.

Uhh. Necrophilia?

Good thing AI is something that doesn't exist in physical space that someone can tamper with...

Sora 2, the product that cost $1.6 billion and hasn't recouped even a thousandth of that yet?

Yeah it's as financially unviable as ever

Those gains won't continue into the future. Transformers are a mostly flushed technology, at least from the strictly tech/math side. New use cases or specialized sandboxes are still new tech (keyboard counts as a sandbox).

No. How much time?