Anonymous wrote:I can’t help but judge based on my own experiences

Chat bots - they can’t help me and I have to ask for a live agent. It takes forever and is a PIA

AI at work - I use it but doesn’t really save that much time. Lots of talk about AI, and most employees go along with it because we have to use it. Some of us just make up reasons to use it.

I do use AI for web searching like everyone else.

Anonymous wrote:I miss Richard Scarry world of jobs
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Anonymous wrote:I can’t help but judge based on my own experiences

Chat bots - they can’t help me and I have to ask for a live agent. It takes forever and is a PIA

AI at work - I use it but doesn’t really save that much time. Lots of talk about AI, and most employees go along with it because we have to use it. Some of us just make up reasons to use it.

I do use AI for web searching like everyone else.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It really is starting to feel like a simulation. There was an article in Harper’s about high net worth individuals retiring abroad to avoid taxes and all the people interviewed were multimillionaires and they all had these kind of fake nebulous jobs (ie built a site to auction off domain names). Reminds me of Tom Wolfe’s bonfire if the vanities where the mother tries to explain to the preschooler that daddy’s a bond trader. At the end of the day none of these people really do anything. Not like a teacher or a nurse. Nothing tangible that actually helps people and yet they are compensated ten thousand times more than the doctors and teachers and nurses. It feels like some kind of terrible simulation. These people doing fake things that are completely divorced from real people doing real things. Nobody dreams of auctioning off domain names as a child when everyone else wants to be a fireman.

I'm convinced that part of why they think AI will replace all the jobs is that they don't have real jobs that really need to be done.

Anonymous wrote:It really is starting to feel like a simulation. There was an article in Harper’s about high net worth individuals retiring abroad to avoid taxes and all the people interviewed were multimillionaires and they all had these kind of fake nebulous jobs (ie built a site to auction off domain names). Reminds me of Tom Wolfe’s bonfire if the vanities where the mother tries to explain to the preschooler that daddy’s a bond trader. At the end of the day none of these people really do anything. Not like a teacher or a nurse. Nothing tangible that actually helps people and yet they are compensated ten thousand times more than the doctors and teachers and nurses. It feels like some kind of terrible simulation. These people doing fake things that are completely divorced from real people doing real things. Nobody dreams of auctioning off domain names as a child when everyone else wants to be a fireman.

Anonymous wrote:I can’t help but judge based on my own experiences

Chat bots - they can’t help me and I have to ask for a live agent. It takes forever and is a PIA

AI at work - I use it but doesn’t really save that much time. Lots of talk about AI, and most employees go along with it because we have to use it. Some of us just make up reasons to use it.

I do use AI for web searching like everyone else.

Anonymous wrote:It really is starting to feel like a simulation. There was an article in Harper’s about high net worth individuals retiring abroad to avoid taxes and all the people interviewed were multimillionaires and they all had these kind of fake nebulous jobs (ie built a site to auction off domain names). Reminds me of Tom Wolfe’s bonfire if the vanities where the mother tries to explain to the preschooler that daddy’s a bond trader. At the end of the day none of these people really do anything. Not like a teacher or a nurse. Nothing tangible that actually helps people and yet they are compensated ten thousand times more than the doctors and teachers and nurses. It feels like some kind of terrible simulation. These people doing fake things that are completely divorced from real people doing real things. Nobody dreams of auctioning off domain names as a child when everyone else wants to be a fireman.

Anonymous wrote:It really is starting to feel like a simulation. There was an article in Harper’s about high net worth individuals retiring abroad to avoid taxes and all the people interviewed were multimillionaires and they all had these kind of fake nebulous jobs (ie built a site to auction off domain names). Reminds me of Tom Wolfe’s bonfire if the vanities where the mother tries to explain to the preschooler that daddy’s a bond trader. At the end of the day none of these people really do anything. Not like a teacher or a nurse. Nothing tangible that actually helps people and yet they are compensated ten thousand times more than the doctors and teachers and nurses. It feels like some kind of terrible simulation. These people doing fake things that are completely divorced from real people doing real things. Nobody dreams of auctioning off domain names as a child when everyone else wants to be a fireman.

Anonymous wrote:Goldman Sachs can't find the impact...

https://wapo.st/4kT3oLl

"Massive investment in AI contributed “basically zero” to U.S. economic growth last year, Goldman Sachs has calculated."

"The struggle to even measure what is happening today suggests there may be years of bickering ahead over whether AI is creating a golden age of prosperity or a path to mass unemployment and impoverishment."

Now is the time for all the tech bros to recommit to "not being evil".

If I have to promise that I'll use your AI to write punchier, crisper e-mails, then okay.