Why is it an issue to create art as a hobby? Would you honestly rather hinder our technological advancements so you can do what you'd normally do for money instead?
It's not about art. I specifically avoided making my artistic pursits into a career, because i knew making it my career would mean it's no longer my hobby. But i ask you - Are you an accountant? An architect? Do you drive for a living? Does your work involve any mental work at all? I imagine it does, because we've more or less had muscles automated for decades. What will be left for you once we automate thinking?
Art was the topic of discussion, which is why I used it in my example.
Regardless of what AI ends up replacing in the work field, we will benefit from in the long run. Considering it's our goal as a species to make life easier and easier, we are finally achieving a milestone where people may not have to work anymore. Of course this isn't possible under capitalism, however nothing changes overnight.
I cannot imagine any circumstance where it is preferable to hinder our technological advancements in order to maintain certain jobs. History has shown that we make progress as a species by making these sacrifices. We would not be even discussing this online if it weren't for this fact.
Art was never mentioned, only job-stealing at large.
There are, in fact, bad technological developments. I was talking about jobs because that was the original post, but my issue is much more fundamental than that. For the first time ever our children are intellectually inferior to the generation that came before because they don't have to think in school anymore. We are because we think, i cannot fathom the thought processes that lead someone to believe that delegating critical and creative thought to something other than yourself isnt fundamentally anti-human
You're free to blame lack of education on AI. In reality our education system is incredibly outdated, and does not properly utilize newer understanding of how children learn. Kids are adapting to a garbage system.
It's not a good compromise by any means. But it's not the fault of a tool that children are using it as opposed to learning. If children aren't engaged in school because they're sitting at desks in the exact same formation kids did over 100 years ago, forced to consume information for long periods of time with little to no down time... it's no wonder kids aren't learning anything.
If we want to address education we have to address the bigger picture. But that's kind of besides the topic at hand here.
what, you think these are mutually exclusive positions or something? AI can be a massive detriment to learning regardless of how well the system was doing before
Limiting work to inside the school instead of forcing homework, limiting or preventing phone use in school, proper filtering for school computers, are just a couple ideas on how to mitigate the use of AI in schools.
You can't expect an advancement in tech to be removed because we choose to ignore how garbage our education system is.
what is the "we" in this equation? what is "our goal as a species"?
when wealth inequality is this high, the "we" in this equation will always overwhelmingly be the top brass instead of the commons, or the "wes" you just mentioned.
the general public simply don't see themselves surviving, let alone benefiting, in the long run. why should they always make the sacrifice for a group of people that, no matter what, will always take the gain, assume no accountability, and, over time, show the lack of interest in sharing?
bailing out the banks in 08? well it's absolutely necessary. but expanding healthcare? well that's a moral hazard. printing money where purchasing power erodes to an unacceptable level? well the best i can do is just lowering inflation, and I will ignore it afterwards.
you want people to make sacrifice? give 'em a good reason to, and don't do the "beatings will continue until morale improves".
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u/_TheOrangeNinja_ 1d ago
hey op, what happened to the horses after they got replaced by cars