alt Hacker NewsIt's hard for me not to think what's the point. I am a very average, even below average person in times of intelligence. What is even my value or reason to be if I know anything I can do, LLMs can do better? What is even my value both on job market and as a human?
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Sorry to be nihilist, but you never had any objective value if you're thinking in these terms.
As far as we know, the universe "just is". There is no universal objective value of human beings, at all, any one of us.
You have to make or find your own value in the universe. I try not to think too hard about the nihilist side and try to appreciate that for some unfathomable reason, I seem to have what I call consciousness - the ability to observe the present and have it superimposed on the past, and what may be the future, leading me to "experience" things. I don't understand it, no-one does (some people suffering from the Dunning-Kruger effect think they do, but they don't), and yet, here we are.
So it doesn't matter to me if machines perform better than I do, because already lots of other people do. Just try to find your own joy or meaning, somehow.
Your value is intrinsic as a human being. We’re capable of love and shared experiences that a machine will never know.
Do you have friends or people in your life that are also not geniuses? Do you think about them this way? Why or why not?
You have inherent value by virtue of being human. Unfortunately it seems like people have forgotten humanism.
There are smarter and better humans at just about everything you or I could want to do, that's just life. Most of life isn't about comparative advantages, it's about enjoying life with people we like.