alt Hacker NewsNo. You're a human, who went through real life experiences. You learned, developed as a human being. You made mistakes and grew from them. You did what you have to do to advance. What you output has intrinsic value because of all this. I argue that even when you roll your face on your keyboard, the output is more valuable than ten pages of slop output from an LLM, since it's human, with all the history, experience, emotions and character which came before it.
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The Neo-Victorian perspective of The Diamond Age is not a luxury most of us are going to be able to afford unfortunately.
I don't know why this got downvoted. I've already been so frustrated by HN LIDAR mindsets but holy shit.
Human society exists because we value humans, full stop. The easiest way to "solve" all of humanity's problems is to simply say that humans aren't valuable. Sometimes it feels like we're conceding a ridiculous amount of ground on that basic principle every year - one more human value gone because it "doesn't matter", so hey, we've obviously made progress!
A quote from Neuromancer comes to mind: