Re:A16Z: AI Avatars
by whimsicalism on Friday April 11, 2025 @11:48AM
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if intelligence is truly commodified, we are effectively post-scarcity or very close to something resembling it.
it seems hard to justify like continued massive material deprivation for tons of people in the world on the basis of ‘who am i’ ego for the top like 0.2% income earners globally.
you're conflating income with wealth. as programmers many of us have good salaries, but if those went away we'd have to dig ditches like everyone else.
miss me with the .1% salary stuff -- income is not wealth.
Re:A16Z: AI Avatars
by lenerdenator on Friday April 11, 2025 @05:39PM
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> if intelligence is truly commodified, we are effectively post-scarcity or very close to something resembling it.
We'll never be effectively post-scarcity.
There are people who are banking on scarcity.
Re:A16Z: AI Avatars
by lenerdenator on Friday April 11, 2025 @05:36PM
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It's not just programming.
If they can replace someone who can deal with problems that are of the size that software engineers deal with on a daily basis, they can replace most of the workforce.
Now I'm not sure what I like doing if the bot does my coding. Who am I? My whole identity is built around being an intelligent programmer but if intelligence is commodified and programming is obsolete then I don't know who I am anymore or what to do for fun
:(
Making a living is a concern but.. it almost feels like one of the more shallow ones. I can stack bricks for money but if AI takes the fun out of programming what am I supposed to do for fun