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Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml to Not the Onion@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 days ago

Sam Altman says AI won't shorten the workweek because humans secretly enjoy being busy

www.techspot.com

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Sam Altman says AI won't shorten the workweek because humans secretly enjoy being busy

www.techspot.com

Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml to Not the Onion@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 days ago
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One of the many benefits promised early in the generative AI boom was that it would boost productivity to the point where most of us could work...
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      Literally my first thought when reading that headline

  • davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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    Oligarchs say the darndest things.

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    I don’t need a job to be busy.

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    It’ll shorten our lives we get it already. Fuck off AI gangsters.

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    Ooooh I just love these tone-deaf sentences.
    It’s just … something else altogether!

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    Good one. Need more of these

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    Almost correct. Being busy for ourselves instead of for Company™ to be more profitable.

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    I have a suggestion Mr. Altman! How about we work you to bones 70 hours a week without any off days? Would you secretly enjoy that?

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    I keep busy making widgets because I need the money to survive. If it were not for needing money to survive I would keep just as busy, but I’d be doing other things. This sam guy doesn’t seem to posses even a basic understanding of logic.

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    No surprise a lizard doesn’t know how humans function.

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    There are things I secretly enjoy, but Sam Altman probably is better off not knowing what those are.

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      Then you telling him is a moral imperative.

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    With the amount of productivity gains we made the past few decades we could all easily work 4 days a week. Except all of that extra productivity has gone fully to the 1% instead of to the general public and infrastructure we need.

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