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Tech Needs Humanists More

86 points · 148 comments · eigenBasis

  1. sevenzero · · focus · HN ↗
    Tech specialists ignoring human feelings about AI and the future of tech, while also looking at the amount of downright evil tech out there makes reconsider about wanting to continue to work in this profession over and over again.

    Before I knew how to program I used to think software developers were smart wizards capable of creating cool stuff out of thin air but the recent years proved me differently given how many of them outright water out of their mouths at the mere thought of replacing the human in the loop with some bullshit parrot we call AI.

    Especially on this website I rarely find people having human first thoughts and it makes me despise software engineers.

    1. hardbass · · focus · HN ↗
      What are the examples of evil tech?
      1. ungovernableCat · · focus · HN ↗
        Autonomous flying drones, mass surveillance, AI trained to deny health insurance claims
        1. simianwords · · focus · HN ↗
          All the things that help societies function in a stable way. So please also add All Cops Are Bad and prisons are bad and so on.
          1. ungovernableCat · · focus · HN ↗
            Oceania would be quite a stable system, true.
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