[lenerdenator]

> but also a huge rise in very explicitly leftist and anti-AI content in a way that did not previously exist - especially on economic/industry issues.

It's always existed; you just haven't been around it. It stretches back to the beginning of the Industrial Revolution; read about the Luddites, Blanketeers, and John Henry.

Humans generally don't like having their livelihoods threatened and that's happening more and more as the people who paid others for labor are finding ways to not pay people while simultaneously getting the fruits of labor. It used to just be physical tasks that were simple to automate; now, it's knowledge-based jobs.

[dingnuts]

I'm not afraid of losing my job as an engineer. I can babysit an agent to build software and my expertise will still matter. I'm upset because that's not fun. I chose this career because programming is fun for me. I put up with everything else and I get to code and eat.

Now I'm not sure what I like doing if the bot does my coding. Who am I? My whole identity is built around being an intelligent programmer but if intelligence is commodified and programming is obsolete then I don't know who I am anymore or what to do for fun

:(

Making a living is a concern but.. it almost feels like one of the more shallow ones. I can stack bricks for money but if AI takes the fun out of programming what am I supposed to do for fun

[lenerdenator]

It's not just programming.

If they can replace someone who can deal with problems that are of the size that software engineers deal with on a daily basis, they can replace most of the workforce.

[whimsicalism]

if intelligence is truly commodified, we are effectively post-scarcity or very close to something resembling it.

it seems hard to justify like continued massive material deprivation for tons of people in the world on the basis of ‘who am i’ ego for the top like 0.2% income earners globally.

[lenerdenator]

> if intelligence is truly commodified, we are effectively post-scarcity or very close to something resembling it.

We'll never be effectively post-scarcity.

There are people who are banking on scarcity.

[dingnuts]

you're conflating income with wealth. as programmers many of us have good salaries, but if those went away we'd have to dig ditches like everyone else.

miss me with the .1% salary stuff -- income is not wealth.