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LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do (human-in-the-loop.bearblog.dev)
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[–] 9 points 5 months ago (5 children)

It’s going to collapse in a big heap

Just like the housing market which the government bailed out at our expense. And housing prices continue to outpace salaries. There's a strong possibility that this is a permanently-forced inefficiency.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    I'm not so sure. The AI hate in the general population is real. The fact that all these companies immediately claimed to replace all human labor within months, made them the enemy of the people, regardless how false these predictions were.

    Banks are not liked either, but they are not hated in the same way. At least in the general public a mortgage seems to be the responsibility of both parties. "So the banks speculated, we still need houses and mortgages."

    I'm not so sure you can explain away the AI bubble that easily. Occupy Wallstreet will be a small affair in comparison.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    I'm fairly pessimistic about the future. Occupy Wallstreet was a total failure. A bigger version can still be a total failure. We've been in a cyberpunk dystopia since 9/11, totally and transparently owned by megacorporations. I can easily see an AI-powered police state dramatically wasting energy to dominate the population.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (2 children)

    I'll frame your comment and hang it om my wall.

    We need to fight against a cyberpunk future no matter what.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    Sure, but we need to also avoid situations where we are simply following its protocols while thinking that we're fighting it. Occupy Wallstreet just vented our energy, and then we went back to work while the same processes accelerated. Terrorism always just increases the power of the police state. Both of these things operate within the protocols of the cyberpunk dystopia, and ultimately facilitate its growth.

    The cyberpunk dystopia wants you to fight it. It wants a strong immune system. It wants you to test its boundaries. But I'm not suggesting complacence either.

    I would reframe "fighting the cyberpunk dystopia no matter what" into something more human-affirming, just as a starting point. Human communities, human learning and expression, homesteading and communing with nature, anything DIY and IRL, I think all these things are more positive than falling into the excitement-trap of believing that you're "fighting" the monopoly on violence.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Yeah, "fight" is not the best word. We have to start building more resilient systems now that survive crisis better than monopolistic oligarchies. I love finding ideas for this in frameworks following Solarpunk values. It's not perfect, but I rather help building towards a hopeful utopian future with some flaws than the dystopia we seem to race towards.

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