alt Hacker NewsBut “good or desirable from a societal standpoint” isn’t what they said, correct me if I’m wrong. They said that people find a benefit.
People find a benefit in smoking: a little kick, they feel cool, it’s a break from work, it’s socializing, maybe they feel rebellious.
The point is that people FEEL they benefit. THAT’S the market for many things. Not everything obv, but plenty of things.
> The point is that people FEEL they benefit. THAT’S the market for many things.
I don't disagree, but this also doesn't mean that those things are intrinsically good and then we should all pursuit them because that's what the market wants. And that was what I was pushing against, this idea that since 800M people are using GPT then we should all be ok doing AI work because that's what the market is demanding.