[zeryx]

People thought that for a long time, that we'd be able to persue higher minded activities such as art, business management, entrepreneurship and writing.

What we've discovered is that the first model breakthroughs have been able to largely demolish that dream. As a writer I can tell you that writing with GPT4 today provides me with superpowers that non- accelerated authors could come close to; and theres no plausible way to distinguish our two works.

I'm more worried about the coming depression / suicide spiral (which were already in by the way) because of human uselessness than I am of terminators coming to farm us.

[throwuwu]

As a writer you are pursuing higher minded activities. You aren’t working in a factory or steering a plow behind a team of oxen. You aren’t illiterate. You even have free time outside of your already very refined employment to pursue even loftier goals of personal fulfillment. Sure, not everyone can say the same but the proportion of people in grinding poverty continues to shrink and is minuscule compared to even just 100 years ago let alone compared to before the industrial revolution.

[stOneskull]

if only it could be a positive spiral.. like a big increase in Amish and Hare Krisna farms