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1. 0c3ca83 · 1790171699 · focus · HN ↗

   Yes, if the product is seen as bad for the world, it won't sell. But it's pretty bad for people, and I don't know how you'd hide that for the people being harmed.

   1. BenzeneDream · 1790171777 · focus · HN ↗

      Its not pretty bad for people.

      1. 0c3ca83 · 1790171899 · focus · HN ↗

         Go talk to an artist, a junior developer, or a musician. And then realize that the goal is to generalize the damage to every other intellectual domain.

         1. howunfortunate · 1790174892 · focus · HN ↗

            This same argument is easily dismissed by most because it boils down to "why not dig with spoons?"

            It only becomes compelling to me if you believe in true AGI/ASI, at which point all human labor becomes irrelevant, and then we have something quite new to think about.

            But simply "it automates away a small portion of jobs" is not compelling.

            1. 0c3ca83 · 1790175461 · focus · HN ↗

               How much of human labor has to become irrelevant before we have something new to think about?

               1. howunfortunate · 1790191741 · focus · HN ↗

                  The key word is "new".

                  The industrial revolution wiped out like 90% of human labor as it was imagined at the time, but it nearly fully replaced it with new forms of employment.

                  There are a lot of unknowns with what this would look like with AI.

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