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by hdivider 342 days ago
I think it's partly because we all just have way too much to do. Every day. All day. And the harder you work, it seems the more you have to do. On top of cognitive processing of all the ambient events in our time, which is a heavy load just by itself.

Most of the time, AI tools promise to be timesavers. So it's natural many folks look for shortcuts. We're simply overloaded, partly due to current situations generated by existing machine learning tools deployed elsewhere in the system.
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johnnyanmac 342 days ago
Who's pushing y'all/us to do do much work? Maybe that institution or society should take responsibility instead of putting the burden on the workers.
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zvorygin 342 days ago
I think society has never, does not, and probably will never work the way you suggest it should.
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johnnyanmac 342 days ago
Nothing is ever ideal, but centuries of labor laws gets us in the right direction. A 4 day workweek would do wonders while still having plenty of work to be done.

Your statement is also why I fear this supposed promise that "AI will do all the work, society won't need jobs!". I don't think we're getting this post-work utopia that tecunocrats love to promise.

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candiddevmike 342 days ago
During COVID, society worked this way with lots of compassion and empathy, but then it broke some people's minds and it has been downhill ever since.
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doug_durham 342 days ago
"y'all"??? Is this a 1970's episode of "Hee Haw"? This faux authenticity is annoying.
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johnnyanmac 342 days ago
Yes, my family was raised in the southern US.

I didn't use it much growing up since they moved west when I was young. but it turns out that "y'all" is surprisingly nifty: a gender neutral, 2nd person pronoun for a group of peope. So I picked it up more in adulthood and put it into my daily vernacular.

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fuzztester 341 days ago
It's a term commonly used in some of the "Southern" US states.

And also by Indian Christians (Catholics) in some parts of India, such as Mumbai and nearby areas, like Pune and Goa, along or near the Western coast of India. Partly grew up there, and also did some of my schooling there, that's how I know this.

I don't know if there is any historical connection between the usage of that phrase (y'all) in those two areas (of the US and India).

It could have been, via (US) Christian missionaries coming here. There were and still are some of them, in some parts of India, from more than 100 years ago. Again, I know this from experience.

That general area of India, and some other parts, do have a relatively high percentage of Christians.

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fourthark 342 days ago
Pretty common word online, especially on the site once called Twitter.
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dinkumthinkum 342 days ago
What are you babbling about? You think that word is indicative of the 1970s? I think you should get out more. Maybe, dare I say, touch grass
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fuzztester 341 days ago
>I think it's partly because we all just have way too much to do. Every day. All day. And the harder you work, it seems the more you have to do.

Yeah(, right). Or rather, yeesh. Or maybe, yikes!

>we all just have way too much to do. Every day. All day.

... in the richest country in the world, which some inhabitants there also call the greatest nation in the world.

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