The majority of U.S. adults don’t believe the benefits of artificial intelligence outweigh the risks, according to a new Mitre-Harris Poll released Tuesday.

  • Peanut
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    1 year ago

    I mean, chess is already obsolete, but it’s also more popular than ever.

    To me there is extreme value in being able to choose your endeavor vs being forced into something agonizing just to survive.

    When everything is obsolete, people can create entire worlds and experiences using AI for themselves and for others who may care to experience it.

    The threat of needing to find something to do is one of the most frustratingly privileged concepts.

    I don’t need anything to do. I just want to be alive without also being exhausted, in pain, and chastised by customers despite working my hardest.

    I’d rather the struggle of finding an activity over worrying about whichever coworker is crying in the walk-in because just surviving requires more from them than they are capable of.

    Being obsoleted is fine by me, as long as we have the power redistribution necessary to keep people alive and happy.

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      1 year ago

      Right. But you’re talking about recreation. I’m talking about a world where there is absolutely no field or activity that you can participate in that will ever make any kind of advancement or notable achievement.

      Think about your favorite comedian. Now imagine that there’s countless AI systems out there that can make jokes in that style but funnier… Way better than that comedians best material ever.

      Would you want to dedicate your life to that career, knowing that the general public will never ever care, because even if you become a master of the craft, there’s an ocean of stuff way better than anything you could ever do at everyone’s fingertips.

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        1 year ago

        I don’t believe the world is as zero sum as you are postulating. I truly don’t believe if ai were to be objectively better at creative pursuits that humans wouldn’t do them.

        I think you are removing the agency that people have because you are associating it to economic output. I disagree with that premise and I don’t think that it’s rational to suggest that humans only pursue things because it produces value.