Comment on People Are Increasingly Worried AI Will Make Daily Life Worse

djsaskdja@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• jet@hackertalks.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m rather enjoying my electricity, my antibiotics, my vaccines against respiratory viruses, my access to unlimited information and pornography, My ability to drive cars that are pretty reliable, my ability to travel anywhere in the world at any time at doable prices, technology has treated us pretty well.

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  • Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah the real problem with AI is its still in its infancy and CEOs are firing people over it. Thats not a good look.

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    • MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You are getting at the actual nature of the problem, unlike silly OP.

      The problem isn’t AI itself. It’s that capitalists are going to use it as a tool to pay the rest of us even less with.

      Though the correct answer is NOT the luddite, “let’s hate the tech”. The correct answer is: Let’s regulate the greedy f*cks who will use it to screw us over.

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      • Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        If only we could create a society that was not at the whims of the ultrawealthy. Unfortunately, many will pin the blame on the technology instead of those siccing it on their jobs. AI just is, LLMs do nothing on their own. If you lost your job to AI, a human made that decision as of right now.

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      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Down with all kings but King Lud!

        But for real opposition not to technology existing but to the effects it will have on society, especially skilled workers, and to the nature of who will benefit from that trade is the closest stance to the Luddites. They were skilled laborers who had a problem with being replaced by machines and unskilled laborers all for massive profits.

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    • MindSkipperBro12@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Adapt or die🤷🏿

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      • Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Username checks out

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  • knotthatone@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I agree. I think tech progression has been mostly beneficial, but I could do without DRM and centralized social media.

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    • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You are on lemmy most likely posting it on a Linux device using Firefox.

      I am not sure what to say except people continue to make the decision that they would like a bit of convenience and pay for it with money or data vs free as in free bear and deal with the lack of support.

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  • djsaskdja@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I guess I could’ve made the cutoff like 100 years ago instead of infinite.

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• FatTony@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The aquaduct…

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  • IIIIII@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What have the Romans done for us lately

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    • SpiderShoeCult@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      nice shoes and cars mostly

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• ratz30@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What an absurd thing to think.

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  • djsaskdja@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Great counter argument lol.

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    • ratz30@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I might as well argue that the sky is blue. There are countless ways technology has benefited humanity, it’s sort of ridiculous to say otherwise outside of some thought experiment.

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      • djsaskdja@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It’s also an option to not say anything.

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    • Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Let’s take a moment to appreciate how ridiculous claim you’re making here.

      Every other technical innovation has made the average person’s life worse.

      Washing machine. Let’s hear how that made everyone’s life worse.

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• 1984@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is not true. You are living in a warm house and have fresh water and food and a lot of nice furniture. We don’t think about these things but that’s because they are default now.

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  • dustyData@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s a lot of assumptions. Poor people don’t go on the internet?

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• AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I have a very well paying job that wouldn’t exist without technology.

  I read library books without going to the libtary or carrying around paper, thanks to technology

  I pay for stuff without having to carry cash or ever visit a bank, thanks to technology

  Cars are technology too, as are flush toilets and furnaces

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  • djsaskdja@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You don’t sound like an average person.

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• Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I think in recent years a lot of “innovation” has been pure marketing fluff and had no real potential to change the world. This one really might. I’ve tempered my expectations, because tech bros really want us to believe there is magic to AI, but eventually it might actually change the world.

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