Qualification:
No, seriously, it’s just awful. I’m starting to worry that I’ll end up homeless or working in low-paying jobs like mining, if, of course, such jobs still exist and aren’t taken by other people. Maybe I should move to a more or less decent village, where at least I’ll have the opportunity to grow my own food and get water from a well?
But I saw that life in the villages is very hard, and I’m not ready to work from morning until late at night without days off.
The year 2027 scares me a lot.
New tech isn’t socially neutral. Should we be excited about the possibilities of new missiles and warplanes? If you understand how that new technology can be bad, you can understand how other new technologies can also not be “exciting”. Capitalism produces for the sake of production. We have plenty of useless shit that exists for the ouroboros of profit and marketing rather than to fulfil some natural use case. I think modern LLMs fall into the former, not to mention the energy cost of the current demand. I think LLMs can be cool as toys/for demos/as academic projects/etc but the current prevalence is purely due to marketing and AI companies trying to make something that is quite expensive, profitable.