Well yes, that’s the goal of all technological progress. Ya think we have assembly lines in factories for the fun of it? Or machines automating what used to be artisanal work? CNC machines making parts that used to be forged for example. Do you think the goal of the tractor is anything more than to get by with fewer workers on the fields?
Hell, go as far back as the invention of the printing press and the owners of these could stop relying on monks copying everything by hand.
You can avoid AI altogether or if you can find a genuinely good use case for it, you can potentially use it to start a company with fewer employees, meaning less starting capital needed.
At the end of the day your problem is with capitalism and the boomers who want to retire on even larger piles of cash, not the tool that could actually be used to reduce the need for capital if it was as good as the people selling it wasn’t you to think.
Yes, but also AI is different. In all the examples you gave, technology increases the efficiency of practical labor. AI is the first time we have attempted to take art away from the artist or wisdom away from the wise.
It’s a consolidation of power at a different scale of human experience. Compare control over book printing to control over the very act of writing. Control over scientific research vs. control over the very act of deliberation itself.
AI is an attempt to replace our intuitions and talents with an ersatz sludge of curated slop.
Well yes, that’s the goal of all technological progress. Ya think we have assembly lines in factories for the fun of it? Or machines automating what used to be artisanal work? CNC machines making parts that used to be forged for example. Do you think the goal of the tractor is anything more than to get by with fewer workers on the fields?
Hell, go as far back as the invention of the printing press and the owners of these could stop relying on monks copying everything by hand.
You can avoid AI altogether or if you can find a genuinely good use case for it, you can potentially use it to start a company with fewer employees, meaning less starting capital needed.
At the end of the day your problem is with capitalism and the boomers who want to retire on even larger piles of cash, not the tool that could actually be used to reduce the need for capital if it was as good as the people selling it wasn’t you to think.
Yes, but also AI is different. In all the examples you gave, technology increases the efficiency of practical labor. AI is the first time we have attempted to take art away from the artist or wisdom away from the wise.
It’s a consolidation of power at a different scale of human experience. Compare control over book printing to control over the very act of writing. Control over scientific research vs. control over the very act of deliberation itself.
AI is an attempt to replace our intuitions and talents with an ersatz sludge of curated slop.