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1. dyauspitr · 1789669001 · focus · HN ↗

   Though AGI isn’t here yet (and in my opinion will only be marginally useful until we have physical AGI), we need to speedrun the painful bits so we can get to the other side in one generation. We need to bear the brunt of it and be the sacrificial generation.

   1. ProfessorLayton · 1789669738 · focus · HN ↗

      >We need to bear the brunt of it and be the sacrificial generation.

      Who is "We" here?

      I'll take a guess: Gen Z, and Gen A.

      Gen Z because they went through covid during college, and now this AI boom that's completely wreaked the entry level job market.

      Gen A is looking increasingly grim, unfortunately. If any of you know any school teachers, you'd know how disheartening it is to try and teach someone that has a homework and entertainment machine in their pocket at all times.

      Millenials went through everything Gen Z has and more ('08), but there was at least a few years of relative normalcy growing up. I don't know what's next, but I'm not very excited about it.

      /rant

      1. breezybottom · 1789670552 · focus · HN ↗

         As always, named "generations" are completely arbitrary and meaningless. They're made up by marketers to sell products.

         1. harimau777 · 1789676775 · focus · HN ↗

            Just because something is arbitrary doesn't mean it is meaningless or useless. In this context named generations are useful because they allow us to discuss the experiences of people born at different times. Certainly there are alternatives like going back to dividing things up by decades ("80s kid", "child of the 90s", etc.); however, that doesn't make named generations useless.

            1. breezybottom · 1789677772 · focus · HN ↗

               No it doesn't. I have little in common with a Japanese rice farmer born in the same year.

               1. harimau777 · 1789678229 · focus · HN ↗

                  The named generations are generally used in the context of specifically American culture or at least English speaking culture. They were never intended to say you have generational similarity to someone in a completely different culture.

                  1. breezybottom · 1789679630 · focus · HN ↗

                     So now it only refers to Americans? The arbitrary goal post shifting continues.

                     1. harimau777 · 1789680824 · focus · HN ↗

                        It's not goal shifting, that's what it has always meant. I'm sorry that you didn't realize that.

                        1. breezybottom · 1789686615 · focus · HN ↗

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                           Wrong.

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