The mental gymnastics people do to justify their decisions are hilarious. Just admit you have no morals and love money.

I want to believe the world is full of good people but I read stuff like this and realize otherwise.

Everybody is so obsessed with squeezing out the maximum amount of money from everything, it's exhausting.

You realize a very small subset of the population can afford a million dollar home, let alone a five million dollar home?

The majority of the city does not give a shit.

Most of what you said is greatly exaggerated or simply not true. It's like you cherry picked Fox News talking points.

Bureaucracy = jobs, at least. I'd rather that than having it concentrated at the top.

I'm glad you could think of a couple examples where AI might not replace humans. It's almost an entirely useless point to make.

The cat is already out of the bag. The information is out there and the models are trained. Even where we stand today will bring massive disruption in time.

The economy is being propped up by the wealthy few that have money to spend and now their legs are being cut out from under them with this technology. We're in for a reckoning.

Doesn't sound that different from my tech job

Ugh, sounds awful. Constantly context switching and juggling multiple tasks is a sure-fire way to burn me out.

The human element in all of this never seems to be discussed. Maybe this will weed out those that are unworthy of the new process but I simply don't want to be "on" all the time. I don't want to be optimized like this.

Intelligence is a scarcity and it cannot overcome the majority of people that are incredibly stupid or ignorant. So accepting that we are doomed relieves some of the stress. I won't have children to worry about their future, either.

I still live my life in such a way that minimizes my impact on the world as much as possible. I still surround myself with folks that want a better world. But there is no stopping the impending doom and I'm trying not to be miserable with the time I have.

it's meant to convey a casual, laid back tone - it's not that big of a deal.

- pollution

- traffic deaths

- heat generation from all the infra

- inefficient use of space

- ugly aesthetic of strip malls and parking lots

It doesn't have to be this way. We can do better to build diverse housing in our cities, leverage space at the ground level for businesses, invest in our transit to make it safer and more convenient.

Instead we just go with what's easy and continue to build roads and sprawl.

IMO, the bar should be that the technology is a significant improvement over the average performance of human drivers (which I don't think is that hard), not necessarily perfect.

I don't think it's fair to qualify this as blue collar work