Not to mention there are 1000X as many skilled engineers and you are competing with a global market. In the early 2000s there was very little competition. The skills of workers are loosely going to correlate with the demands the market puts on them, and it is extremely competitive now.

My fear in your above example would be that we offload more and more of the "know the recipe" intelligence to computers and humans are slotted in as replaceable manual labor and are left arguing with a computer about whether the starter needs to be fed or not (or whatever equivalent scenario).

Now they encourage users to bet as part of the commentary.

The government and everyone with any money/power are fully invested in keeping the market going regardless of any kind of reality.

"Every American child under 18 with a Social Security number can have a federally recognized "Trump Account," a one-time $1,000 IRA seed deposit"

By doing this every citizen will personally have skin in the game and want markets to continue to rise.

We are slowly stripping everyone of the will to build meaningful lives by fulfilling all wants with soulless instant gratification. No perfection of AI/sex work or whatever can match actual intimacy with someone.

That is at the root of most of our current societal ills I believe. Bad economy, Bad job market, etc. are all a smokescreen over the fact that people can escape their problems. You can live a numb half-life and avoid any crisis that might trigger real change.

If a bad economic outlook was all it took to wipe out the birth rate we would never have survived the great depression or other 10,000 hard times we have endured as a species.

Workers who will be replaced now are already specialized and highly educated in a specific skill. Remember when Obama said that displaced miners and factory workers should "learn to code"? Well where do coders and other highly educated knowledge workers go once we get displaced? I am not disparaging miners more just wondering like... can you squeeze much more cognitively and emotionally out of workers?

It feels like we are closing in on the endgame of 100s of years of improving the tools.

In the 1800s if your body/mind worked relatively well you had value. That was all it took.

Then we industrialized everything and having a body wasn't worth much anymore, You needed to have a healthy body/mind and educate yourself in a specific skill.

Now we are staring down a reality where having a healthy body/mind, an education and skillset isn't worth much. So what is next?

At the end of the day we all just want to feel like we have a place, but our kids are looking at a future where they can prepare themselves 24/7 and still be easily replaceable. We probably need some kind of post-capitalist view of human value or people if we keep raising the minimum requirements to have worth in society.

If you are transcribing audio from unknown sources and feeding the output to agents that can perform authorized actions on your behalf you are kind of screwed anyway. I guess it would be dangerous if you tricked authorized users to play the sounds in the background while transcribing something.

The article seemed to indicate that humans have some innate goodness: "Our internal intuition about right and wrong seems to leave us at an early age". If you agree with that then why do the parents around you need to teach your kids to be good/care.

>> "Again, it doesn't feel that hard to me, but I'll respect that it feels alien to other's nature."

Thank you for "respecting" that being a good person is "alien" to me and my kids.

If you want to insult me just do it. I guess a snark filled "clever" backhanded insult does track with your self-important view of your child-rearing abilities. Are you teaching your little angel those skills as well?

We are little monsters without our parents literally berating us until we develop shame.

Small kids left to their own devices will gang up on anyone different or weak and antagonize them to raise their own social standing. They respect strength/power and have little empathy.

The "intuition" the author refers to only exists because the scoldings he received during his formative years conditioned him to behave "right".

I have no idea what a junior/non-tech person would have done. Like I have wrangled with JS dependencies for 10 years so so I very quickly identified Claude was about to create a tangled nightmare.

If we compared average modern humans against average well fed and educated ones from 200 years ago would that still hold up? I suspect the average college educated human from 1800 would obliterate the average college educated human from 2026.

Cool take.

Now combing through analytics to determine whether or not what we did was actually good? Less warm and cozy.

Super necessary and important movements but it had to be confusing going from a 13 year old to a young man while being barraged with how evil men can be.

In 2018 I was in my mid 20s living in San Francisco and "white men are evil and are the problem" was the accepted stance. Like disagree with that statement at your peril. In my mid 20s I could contextualize it as a passing a phenomenon, but could a 16 year old?

If the steps to hire an applicant are:

A human asks AI to write a job posting.

Human posts output.

Human gathers candidates.

Human asks AI "which of these 40 applicants should we hire".

Then an AI isn't managing the cafe at all. I am super dubious that they created some huge LLM orchestration context management monstrosity, gave it access to their bank account and then told it to go.