I drove around today listening to the most recent Lex Fridman podcast, in which the founder of Boston Dynamics was describing replacing human labor with machines that were capable of learning by seeing. I have family in the trades. I pursued tech and fell in love with the field. Listening to the interviewee, I began to feel sick to my stomach at the glib description of what amounts to ripping away peoples' livelihoods with plasticized fingers. Work is equivalent to worth. We are not biologically or sociologically prepared to differentiate the two.
How easy it must be for Sam Altman to drag the world kicking and screaming into the future. How pretty his offices.
How easy it must be for Sam Altman to drag the world kicking and screaming into the future. How pretty his offices.