It's also the premise of The Matrix. I feel pretty goddamned uneasy about that.
In any case, the matrix wasn't my inspiration here, but it is a pithy way to describe the concept. It's hard to imagine how humans maintain relevancy if we really do manage to invent something smarter than us. It could be that my imagination is limited though. I've been accused of that before.
Have you ever spent any time around children? How about people who think they're accomplishing a great mission by releasing truly noxious ones on the world?
You just dismissed the entire notion of accountability as an unnecessary form of suffering, which is right up there with the most nihilistic ideas ever said by, idk, Dostoevsky's underground man or Raskolnikov.
Don't waste your life on being the Joker.
> Humans are on the verge of building machines that are smarter than we are.
You're not describing a system that exists. You're describing a system that might exist in some sci-fi fantasy future. You might as well be saying "there's no point learning to code because soon the rapture will come".
Most AI experts not heavily invested in the stocks of inflated tech companies seem to agree that current architectures cannot reach AGI. It's a sci-fi dream, but hyping it is real profitable. We can destroy ourselves plenty with the tech we already have, but it won't be a robot revolution that does it.
What I really need to ask an LLM for is a pointer to a forum that doesn't cultivate proud exhibitions of ignorance, Luddism, and general stupidity at the level exhibited by commenters in this entire HN story, and in this subthread in particular.
We already had one Reddit, we didn't need two.
Why?
We'll fix that, eventually.
- don't have career growth that you can feel good about having contributed to
Humans are on the verge of building machines that are smarter than we are. I feel pretty goddamned awesome about that. It's what we're supposed to be doing.
- don't have a genuine interest in accomplishment or team goals
Easy to train for, if it turns out to be necessary. I'd always assumed that a competitive drive would be necessary in order to achieve or at least simulate human-level intelligence, but things don't seem to be playing out that way.
- have no past and no future. When you change companies, they won't recognize you in the hall.
Or on the picket line.
- no ownership over results. If they make a mistake, they won't suffer.
Good deal. Less human suffering is usually worth striving for.