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Yellow posted...

Are you some kind of comic book villain?

I mean, we established that like 20 years ago.

There's a reason why the Geek topics always used to give thanks that we don't actually live in a universe where comic book logic applied... because if we did I'd absolutely have a orbiting satellite death ray or have bio-engineered some sort of ultraplague by now.



adjl posted...

With the rather critical difference that there no longer are new skills that one can learn to adapt to the changing environment.

Which is sort of the whole point. "Learn to code" was a garbage answer from garbage people even then.

We've been on a steady progressive path to total elimination of most jobs for decades now (and arguably even longer than that). It's why support for the idea of a UBI has been increasing, along with discussions about how you can run a consumerist society when no one has a job. We're rapidly reaching a point where we probably have to start reconsidering how economies work, and just trying to stop the steamroller of history is more likely to result in a lot of flat people than it is to actually fix anything.

But yes, I have very little sympathy for people who happily supported the inevitable forces in play right up to the point where it suddenly became something that affected them as opposed to other people. To sum it up as another meme, "I never thought leopards would eat MY face". So no, I don't give a fuck if actors and journalists have to eat out of a dumpster because they helped create the very conditions that ultimately made them superfluous, all while arrogantly assuming they were invulnerable because they thought no one would ever be able to teach a computer to play pretend.

There are certainly discussions to be had about various technical/ethical/moral/practical facets of the potential of AI (and automation as a whole), and theoretical limitations that should potentially be applied for any number of reasons. But I don't give a single solitary shit about protecting "entertainment media" or anyone who is part of it. I feel far more sympathy for all the other people who've lost jobs or found themselves in crisis because technology has made them redundant and cost them careers.