[steelkilt]

We all have self-constructed identities. When threat of deconstruction presents itself, we react. E.g. my college degree isn’t worth what I thought it was, therefore I’m not the person I thought I was, therefore AI is evil, doesn’t work right, is bad for the environment, is bad for society, et. al.

“This thing makes me feel less special, therefore I don’t like it.”

[drawfloat]

They probably don’t like it because the AI industry has spent years saying it wants to make them all unemployed.

[steelkilt]

Most of them won’t be unemployed.

[JohnFen]

I honestly don't think this is a large factor. I think a larger factor for the pushback is "this tech looks like it's going to make my life harder and more unpleasant".

[mulr00ney]

>is bad for the environment, is bad for society

Can't it be those too?

[ofjcihen]

No way, it’s definitely 100% because college kids are entitled or something.

[steelkilt]

I don’t blame them for how they feel. In fact, I feel sorry for them. Covid took a few years from them, then AI comes along and invalidates their career choices. That’s a hard case.

[ofjcihen]

Oh yeah I don’t blame them at all.

And to be clear that was sarcasm from my earlier comment.

Nah the kids grew up in the middle of “once in a lifetime” events and are now subject to a life where what’s considered a viable career changes every 2 years or so.

They’ve never known a stable world.

[scrubs]

Entitled? Or something?

Reactionary. At worst young kids are lazy (in selected cases only) and nieve about how work works.

Entitlement comes from mental disorder or growing up in affluence like much of the upper 5%.

Moreover, kids from middle to lower income brackets i think work harder, are more resilient, and take their education more seriously than those that just fall in Harvard. The underlying difference? Consequences in the real world. When you always land on your feet or feel untouchable entitlement is 6 months away to a lifetime of clueless.

[DeltaCoast]

I think the comment you are responding to meant that sarcastically.

[ofjcihen]

Si

[scrubs]

Oh! My bad!. Let give me give my best rosane rosanadanna (from old school SNL TV era) "never mind"

[steelkilt]

Of course. Multiple things can be true.

[addycb]

"Fuck you, got mine"

[steelkilt]

Most of the people I know worked pretty hard for what they have.

[danny_codes]

Tale as old as boomer

[steelkilt]

Actually, that’s a tale as old as humanity itself.