[sbiru93]

Incredible. Lately, I’ve been going through a bit of an identity crisis. I know I’m a passionate and not-so-bad developer, but with all this talk about AI, I couldn’t really understand if that was an end of an era for me.

But while reading this article, something clicked, it makes so much sense. It really made me feel better.

[jaggederest]

I think this quote is highly relevant, though I would guess you, as I am, are by no means a beginner, the matter of taste is the one at hand, I think. Humans matter, and furthermore, human taste can't be replaced (yet? at all? why would we want to?)

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/309485-nobody-tells-this-to...

[skinfaxi]

> human taste can't be replaced (yet? at all? why would we want to?)

People want to. People want to be told what to watch by an algorithm. They want music made by algorithms. They will eat whatever the reviews say they should. Reviews, etc are manipulated today. Why will future humans care what another human thinks? (I in no way endorse this view but the cynic in me sees it as almost inevitable in our AI-driven descent into idiocracy)

[danny_codes]

I find it helpful to think of the Amish. The Amish chose what technology to adopt not based on market demand, but on whether or not they collectively (at a democractic-ish government-ish level) think that technology will be good for their society.

In our society, we largely do not democratically choose what technology to adopt. We instead allow a small set of very rich people (commonly called Oligarchs) to choose for us. These people force their technology on our society regardless of whether or not the majority (or super-majority) want it, because doing so reinforces or expands their status as Oligarchs.

The Amish prove that we don't _have_ to do it that way. We can collectively change course if we want to, and plenty of people are fighting for that change. For example, Hawaii recently passed a law banning corporations from being able to spend on elections, and other states are looking to do so to. Polling for curtailing money in politics has over 70% support. Obviously we could lose our democracy, and the Oligarchs could capture the country. However, I choose to believe that enough of us working together can take back the country and make better choices about what technology we want to adopt.

[xyru]

I just wanted to chime in and say this has also been bothering me quite a bit the past few months. You're not alone.