alt Hacker NewsI feel like YC has a bunch of these optimistic blog posts ready to throw up on the front page anytime something goes viral about how LLMs are bad.
Software isnt going to become more economically valuable its going to be used to replace economic inputs of labor with units of compute.
Its entirely intended to take humans out of the equation or devalue human labor and it always has. Dont be a fool.
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tptacek • yesterday at 11:03 PM
That's literally what automation is. You could make the same argument against the power loom. People did!
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pousada • yesterday at 10:53 PM
What went viral? To me it just seems like people are pretty divided on the topic which makes sense as it’s an emerging technology. I feel I see as many posts against AI as glazing it.
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To me it seems like the big question for the future will be how to achieve political relevance as "the little guy". It seems like with LLMs the typical "get educated" pathway for the lower class is closing quick. I dread to think of a world where large portions of society are essentially "useless".