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Hah! Nailed us! Just look at these comments!

Now this is an excellent use of AI!

I am sad for you and I hope you find a way to combine the two some day, but I hope you understand that not everyone feels that way. I imagine that you can understand in concept anyway how fulfilling it would be to combine material reward with something you would pursue even without that reward.

Look I essentially agree with you, but I also recognize all three as “work”. As technology floods society people do less of all three even before AI but household robotics will definitely come after cooking and childcare in an unprecedented way. Reading is perhaps a slight stretch to define as work as you and I both read for pleasure but given how sharply reading rates have dropped in the face of short form video (which to me is not work to consume), it is also clearly under threat. Many humans seem to choose shallow convenience over the expenditure of any effort for deeper rewards. Teaching children that working at something to master it is both intrinsically worthwhile and deeply rewarding is one of the main jobs of parenting as I’m sure you’ll agree. Regardless, not everyone would be contented by having only a few useful avenues left, not everyone finds satisfaction in cooking, reading or child care. In fact I’d argue that most people do not find deep satisfaction in any of these three. Nor in the handful of others that often pop up, music, art, dance, etc. Humans are varied and having 30% feel rootless and unfulfilled traditionally leads to political extremism and war.

Ah thank you, context is illuminating.

Jesus Christ, we are just clowns aren’t we.

Because to feel useful, to have pride in your accomplishments, to rest well at night knowing you did a good days work feeds the soul. To have all human work matter no more than a zoo enrichment program would be the death knell of a sentient species.

Orion is great on iOS, good browser. Some jank on sites like Substack but for that I blame Substack for janky user hostile code.

No, this is 100% written by Claude. It reads exactly like it, with all of the same phrasing, awkward sentence construction and other annoyances I have to deal with all day long.

It’s almost certainly being done by clowns on the orders of one of the clowns in chief. Note that quote, “I would drop everything to work on that” said guy who did not in fact drop anything to work on that. Reading between the lines I can hear old Mr loaf belting out “I would do anything for love, but I won’t do that!”

They think the same of you…

Back to piracy it is. I mean I gave you all the money you asked for and it wasn’t enough was it? You also demanded to shove your ads in my face. Even though I said no, and that I would pay to avoid this, but you said no, I don’t love your money as much as I love their money AND violating you.

These analogies are all hilarious because they are prima facie idiotic. This thing that has never happened before in human history is exactly like this other thing that happened very frequently in human history because of hand wavy thing about tools. Except, that this time, we ARE the tools that are being replaced. The human mind being completely replaced is in fact new under the sun my loves. It’s not the same as a calculator. When was the last time you asked your calculator to run your entire life for you and run your military campaigns and all your businesses and all your legal cases and every last tiny aspect of everyone’s life overnight. Christ we capitulated quickly! Lazy lazy lazy pieces of shit, reads our epitaph.

  And yes it’s not entirely true today but the entire field of software engineering changed in the last twelve months.  A blink of an eye. In five years, game over, in 10 or 20 good night. It must be so flattering to think you still have a role to play.  But you don’t.  You ARE the thing that is being replaced.   Whether that is good is bad I don’t know but I wouldn’t be surprised to see data center strikes (as in attacks) become much more common very quickly.  And they’ve already started.  Game this out and the most likely scenario is that we enter mutually assured data center destruction with strategic deterrents against the operation of major data centers which drives them underground into hardened bunkers with independent nuclear power sources.  All of which means superpower access to AI and none for the little person at threat of death.

 Or maybe I’m just nuts and it really is just like carpenters building frames for cement meaning that masons don’t exist (which I suppose they’d be surprised to find out given that there are apparently 200,000+ in the us alone) and some other muddled half baked wishful thinking nonsense. Calculator compiler etc etc.   Look!  The heathens are coming!  No that smell and dust on the horizon is not the mongol horde my friend, it is of course just a summer breeze like the time that your nephew farted. Ah ok then, no need to worry.

That odor you are detecting is just good old fashioned bullshit, my friend. It’s just that nowadays everything and everyone is covered in it, and we are not supposed to notice. The emperor has no clothes… and is covered in shit.