[trekkie1024]

100% agree. It always irks me that we’re using AI to solve “problems” that don’t exist (the automation of creativity and relationships, things that make us human) while not putting as much effort into real issues facing the world today (poverty etc.)

[capableweb]

Hackers mainly hack on things that personally affect them and things they find personally gratifying to work on. Someone who is inclined to like images, AI, ML and programming are likely to work on "problems" where all of those intersect.

There is also the thing where some things are really not about technology, but are larger issues. They cannot be solved by just writing software. And if you're looking for something to solve via writing software, you won't attempt to solve that thing.

Poverty falls into this bucket, where no matter how much software you write, you cannot solve poverty by just deploying programs.

Not everyone can or want to save the world. Some people just want to have fun while they can, because eventually you end up in the dirt, no matter what you do (unless you come up with a way for humans to be immortal), like the rest of humanity.

But, seemingly you feel strongly about wanting people to work on those issues, so what do you spend your time on, on a daily basis? I'm guessing you are on the front line trying to solve one of these big issues?

[lawtalkinghuman]

> Hackers mainly hack on things that personally affect them and things they find personally gratifying to work on.

We're not talking about some rando hacker cranking out a cool Emacs module, these are projects backed by companies like Google and Microsoft and are being integrated into some of the most widely used tech products in the world like Google Search, Android, iOS, Facebook etc.