Timeline for What’s on your mind?
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| Jan 2 at 7:25 | comment | added | NoDataDumpNoContribution | I thought more about it and neither do I need a happier space with more human touch (I'm happy enough) nor do I need a longer life if it isn't filled with satisfying activities. What I need is doing purposeful, useful stuff and in Q&A I can't do that as good anymore because the competition from generative AI which takes my work but never quotes me, is too strong. I need to find other areas of semi-profession. | |
| Dec 30, 2024 at 9:28 | comment | added | NoDataDumpNoContribution | @JourneymanGeek And history is littered with doomsayers (like me). But then again, the past is not a reliable predictor of the future. This time might be the time where things turn for better or worse. Who knows. Surely AI is a disruption and the real value is discussing along which axes this disruption will work and what people actually would prefer to have. A chance to build better tools we have had the whole time. | |
| Dec 30, 2024 at 9:19 | comment | added | Journeyman Geek | On the contrary - Tech has survived burst bubbles before. This gives a chance to build tools from a more balanced footing than big promises made to extract maximum VC money . | |
| Dec 30, 2024 at 9:17 | comment | added | Franck Dernoncourt | @JourneymanGeek doesn't sound optimistic to me as if AI is just a big burst bubble then we lose our chance at having a much longer+healthier life. | |
| Dec 30, 2024 at 9:13 | comment | added | Journeyman Geek | As an optimist? Option 3. There's a big burst bubble over AI and manipulative social media. People go back to smaller, better natured, more intimate community. We can finally get around to trying to rebuild a happier space than what we have now :D | |
| Dec 30, 2024 at 8:58 | comment | added | Franck Dernoncourt | @NoDataDumpNoContribution won't appear that golden when they'll die from some disease that could have been cured if people focused on finding treatments for those diseases instead of doing automatable jobs | |
| Dec 30, 2024 at 8:56 | comment | added | NoDataDumpNoContribution | @FranckDernoncourt I agree that solutions exist, but that doesn't mean they will be implemented. Or they may be implemented but only after some prolonged transition period, which might still be bad for people living in it. And there are still many other problems. And maybe I'm just too pessimistic. I know an artist who is happy she is retired now. She says she lived in the golden time of art where you could make money from this profession. Others may be more optimistic there and see lots of opportunities for even greater things. | |
| Dec 30, 2024 at 8:36 | comment | added | Franck Dernoncourt | @NoDataDumpNoContribution There exist many solutions for that such as taxing automation eg en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_tax (or better, stop waging wars and reduce military budgets, but this is more difficult because of the appallingly poor education that we have received so far). | |
| Dec 30, 2024 at 8:30 | comment | added | NoDataDumpNoContribution | @FranckDernoncourt "instead these workers help educate kids, treat injured individuals and improve human longevity" Only if they somehow can get paid for it, otherwise not. You have to live from something. | |
| Dec 30, 2024 at 8:28 | history | edited | NoDataDumpNoContribution | CC BY-SA 4.0 | slightly improved where Stack Exchange is in all of this |
| Dec 30, 2024 at 2:24 | comment | added | Franck Dernoncourt | " Creative people lost their jobs in masses, are now employed by big AI companies for little money and fix their products when AI doesn't hit the mark" or instead these workers help educate kids, treat injured individuals and improve human longevity, instead of having tiktok kids and dying at 75. | |
| Dec 30, 2024 at 2:22 | comment | added | Franck Dernoncourt | @ShadowWizard Stack Exchange went bankrupt in 2026 so it's not in the 6-8 years vision. | |
| Dec 29, 2024 at 22:41 | comment | added | NoDataDumpNoContribution | @ShadowWizard Sorry, I thought it was more clear. In the first case it goes down no matter what and only the most relevant brand name survives, in the second case it also goes down unless it adapts and does one or multiple of the mentioned adaptations. That means it needs to be lucky and under the right circumstances finds a niche or it will cease to exist. Sounds almost trivial now, but still I tried to depict the range of possible futures as faithful as possible. | |
| Dec 29, 2024 at 21:15 | comment | added | user152859 | But, where is Stack Exchange in all of this? | |
| Dec 29, 2024 at 20:47 | history | answered | NoDataDumpNoContribution | CC BY-SA 4.0 |