Ilovethebomb comments on Bernie Sanders says if AI is coming for workers, it should bring a four-day workweek with it

[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Possibly, but there's no practical use for it in my industry, and everything I've seen it try and do has been, at best, mediocre. I've also noticed that the people who are most enthusiastic about it are never particularly impressive themselves.

Overall, I think it gets far more credit than it deserves, from both it's fans and critics.

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[–] NuanceDemon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Kinda makes sense that the people you see getting the most out of it aren't particularly "impressive" when a lot of its practical utility is in fairly mundane office and middle-management work, no?

But even fairly modest productivity gains multiplied across millions of workers can have enormous consequences.

Whether or not those workers will actually see any financial benefits out of it is a different question entirely.

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[–] untorquer 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

But even fairly modest productivity gains multiplied across millions of workers can have enormous consequences.

Good yes finally! We need to burn the planet for modest productivity gains.

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[–] NuanceDemon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 1 month ago (2 children)

You looked at the amount of solar the world has implemented over the last couple of years to compensate though?

Or how fast a unit of work has been getting exponentially cheaper over very short spaces of time?

You're not unreasonable in glancing at the situation and seeing Doom, dont get me wrong, but if you do more than glance there is a more positive picture forming.

Of course, political reform will be crucial or we're fucked either way.

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[–] untorquer 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

You can't compensate for wantan abuse.

The alternative means for producing sufficient energy for a better standard of living than most of us are privileged enough to experience has been around for several decades now(much longer with caveats).

These decisions to not only continue to use fossil fuels but to accelerate the pace of ecological destruction in the name of "compute", all the while failing to benefit or protect the rights of laborers, are purely political and always has been.