LLMs not existing isn't the reason we don't have UBI or free healthcare, or stipends to pursue passions. I think most people are understandably concerned that the benefits of these new tools will primarily accrue to the tiny elite who can afford to control the compute resources and therefor mediate access to the models.

If LLM replaces a bunch of $DAYJOB you won't have people learning violin, you'll have widespread unemployment and the civil unrest that accompanies it.

> If LLM replaces a bunch of $DAYJOB you won't have people learning violin, you'll have people arming themselves and raiding stores of food and medical supplies.

Thus the need to start talking about how we will all benefit from this and demand those kind of outcomes...

This isn’t how anything works dude. Automation doesn’t mean less work it means each individual can be more productive. We’ve been automating jobs for centuries, your dream of doing nothing is just an infantile dream that we all have to get over at some point.

Automation means less work for any given value produced, which means greater quality of life across the board unless this increased productivity is offset in its broad effects by increased capture of value by narrowly concentrated capital.

Which makes it kind of suck if you have an economic system that is so centered around maximizing the concentration of capital and the extraction of value by that class that it is named for it, but the problem there isn’t automation.

You won't pull yourself up by your bootstraps with that attitude! You can learn to play the violin and be homeless( Typical slacker complaining instead of just being willing to multitask).

seriously?

> I personally would be fine if LLM replaced my $DAYJOB if it meant I could work on learning violin, gardening, or creating videogames.

But let's be realistic -- that's not at all what it would mean.

That would be great, but I don't see it happening. Instead I find it more likely that human labour will be relegated to other activities which cannot be automated like food delivery, driving, cleaning et cetera, and we will all keep working 40hr work weeks (if you are lucky to have a job).

Relevant:

https://twitter.com/stealthygeek/status/1604513283972767745 Quote: 1960's Futurists: Automation will free mankind from meaningless tedium to focus on creative pursuits only human beings can master.

2020's Techbros: We're building AI that will write all your books, music, and TV so you can focus on the meaningless tedious of your cubicle job.

1. Who is going to sponsor your gardening work?

2. Why would they?

Why bother learning violin or creating video games when AI does it much better and faster?

This is actually an interesting question that I also see in the AI art and artist debate. The trope is that "people thought AI would replace mundane jobs leaving room for creativity, now it's automating my creative job, why even bother making art?" The answer is the same as why anyone does any hobby at all. We still run despite making cars, ships, planes, rockets that go at hundreds of miles per hour. We still play chess and Go even though an AI can beat every human on the planet. We will still make music even if AI does simply because we want to.

Now, to expect to do a hobby as a job, forever (coding, art, music, whatever), that is a very privileged position to be in and most people in human history have not been that fortunate.

don't worry, generative models are coming after music and videogames too. hope you really like gardening...

Great, just like gardening, I get enjoyment out of doing the thing. Happy to share what I produce, but couldn't care less if no one else uses it.