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And that’s basically it!
Why don't we just start with a mandatory 4 day work week and see how many people want to work on Friday.
Fuck man, if AI made it so I didn't have to work 40 hours a week just to live, you know what I'd be doing?
I'd be keeping busy about as much time per week, sure. But I'd be doing shit I WANT TO DO instead of maximizing Shareholder Value™️. Reading, motorcycling, brewing, baking, hiking...
Living. Not just working.
Unfortunately for us all, LLMs won't do that and never were designed for it. Instead they're tools of Fascist oppression, and should be destroyed.
Megaloathe
I never feel more useless, isolated, and destroyed emotionally than when I am performing monotonous shitty tasks fixing fuckups that shouldn't have happened
and it just so happens that that seems to be the type of work that AI leaves behind for real people, so...
Plantation owner assures us slaves enjoy the whip.
If you don't like working 50 hours a week until age 80 for a non living wage. It means you have work derangement syndrome. Totally a real thing.
Yeah dude, busy playing Metroid and going surfing, not busy completing four hours of unskippable corporate training for the third time this month
Sam!!! You promised you wouldn't tell anyone. Oh my gosh, I'm so embarassed everyone knows my secret now. 🤭
It sure is convenient that the business owners are always reporting on their findings that support their business models!
I hate being busy.
Yet more evidence I am not human.
Here's the thing, I do love being busy...
Playing with my kid
Cleaning the house
Painting minis
Work busy is so far down the list
There is a thing if you do nothing and didn't interact with the world at all and work can expose you to different groups of people, that work can be better than never working. But the ideal schedule is like 5 hours twice a week with almost no commute. More than three days and it starts to harm you and drastically reduces what you can do.
"Sam Altman says..."
Who fucking cares?
Read: His ilk will make most people work 60-72 hour work weeks, at lower pay. Some of them even want to reduce the human population, go figure.
I enjoy teaching and, provided I was guaranteed my needs and reasonable comforts were provided, would continue to teach for free. I doubt Altman’s talking about passionate people pursuing their passions free from the threat of financial ruin.
Altman passion is to make more money. He is a venture capitalist primarily, making billions on his previous investments in tech companies. He is not a human existence 99.9999 % of us can emulate.
Bingo! People love being busy when it's about passionate work or enjoying their hobbies.
Billionaires secretly enjoy guillotines.
I enjoy being productive. For the kind of work I do - if I'm "actively engaged" more than about 30 hours a week, I get less productive instead of more.
Balance in all things.
Every time I think Altman has maxxed the “I am a complete fucking tool and a garbage human” metric, he manages to set the bar a little bit higher. It’s as impressive as it is obnoxious and aggravating.
Sam Altman says
Opinion discarded
don't upvote threads about what this idiot says then
i did not.
I’d like to interject for a moment, but what you’re actually referring as Sam Altman isn’t his actual name, but as I’ve taken to calling him Scam Altman
Is there an Origman? Can we go back to him for a bit?
Heh, that’s good; I’m gonna use it going forward :)
Well, I guess the joke is that people who stay in the workplace will have to work even harder, but for the same or less salary, checking the work of AI agents.
We will be working hard to build more data centers so computers can do creative jobs and manage us.
He's half right. I enjoy being busy, as long as I'm doing things I want when I want. What my employer wants me to do is rarely on the top of that list.
Bro read about bullshit jobs and thought it sounds like winning formula
The "secret" is people want and will actively seek out passions, and having a job that you're passionate about is a night and day difference.
All you need to get people passionate is provide livable wage, have a supportive work culture, and give them a sense of purpose for their work.
Instead we've got shit pay, managers that will abuse your trust to get free work then dump you on a bad quarter, and all sense of choice and responsibility stripped in favor of getting you to follow a corporate script and be a good little corporate automaton that absorbs the customer's complaints while being powerless to fix their issue.
Yes... Doing things we enjoy rather than working.
I do enjoy working a lot
Doesn’t mean I wouldn’t prefer to work shorter weeks for companies that profit from me
Then I can spend more time on my own projects which is more rewarding
People enjoy productivity. People love working on things. But they don't enjoy working on things for someone else, all while getting nothing out of it but some financial compensation for their time wasted.
One of the most awful feelings is being too exhausted to work on your own projects. It's so unfulfilling and anti-human nature.
Busy with what
This mfer thinks we don't do shit outside of working hours wtf
Sam Altman hasn't worked a day in his life and even that is a bit too much for him.
Oh no! My secret love for labor! I sure hope no one tries to reduce my quality of life by reducing my hours/full paycheck!
The only people I know who are keen on going to work have been doing 40 hour weeks for decades. It's not enjoyment, it's indoctrination. Enjoying being busy is in no way equivalent to enjoying sitting in a office hearing Janet say "Someone has a case of the Mondays!".
Yes Sam, we are yearning for the mines, and for billionaires to abuse us even more...
Weird, I thought I said Sam Altman could go fuck himself after the last awful thing he said, did nobody pass my message on?
I think this is true to an extent. It's why I don't give much Creedence to the "no one would work under communism" rhetoric.
That being said, there's a difference between keeping busy with hobbies and building stuff for myself or to eventually sell, and making my employer money.
What's that? The essential promise of AI that people cared about (real people, not rich assholes) was a lie the whole time? I'm shocked! Shocked I say!
Scam Faultman
Oh yeah, I totally revel in my 40 hour work week and being stressed all the time...
Fuck Sam Altman. He and the rest of the billionaires on the planet are a fucking cancerous tumor that needs to be removed.
Why bother talking to guys like Sam? Why print what they say?
He isn't even an AI expert, his own employees have said so. He is just the adman.
Why bother talking to guys like Sam? Why print what they say?
Because very dumb people with lots of money still believe his lies.
He's running out of superlatives though, can't go much beyond declaring that the singularity is happening right now. Which I means the investors will see that huge ROI aaaany second now.
"We always want more. We think of new things to do, to create for each other, to want for ourselves. It's like a relative game. People are very focused on how they're doing relative to other people," the CEO said.
they had us in the first half. not gonna lie~
~~People~~ billionaires are very focused on how they're doing relative to other ~~people~~ billionaires.