When the lawnmower was invented in 1830 it created the unrealistic expectation that all well-heeled properties have carefully manicured lawns with flat cut grass. Suddenly even people who had no desire or interest in gardening were expected to own lawn tools and do yard work to adhere to the new expectation. That expectation spread across the world and now lawnmowers and yard tools are a multi-billion dollar industry that consumes everyone’s time for no good reason. It’s just part of human culture now. Every year all the supposedly intelligent, free-willed humanoids living on Earth dedicate their scant time, wealth, and resources to cut weeds near their domiciles only because it is expected of them. It accomplishes no positive benefit. It is a net waste of time and energy. It is a purely harmful thing to do. But if you ask anyone about it, they will initially be convinced it’s a good thing because they don’t actually think about it with logic. They just keep doing it because for the past 200 years we have all been doing it.
It’s very possible AI will turn out to be a similar thing.
I fucking hate Big Lawn. I have friends who let their yard grow wild and it’s awesome. The pollinators love it. My HOA and spouse won’t let me do it.
“…Employees worked at a faster pace, took on a broader scope of tasks, and extended work into more hours of the day, often without being asked to do so,” the researchers wrote.
How is “faster” measured? What is faster?
Pace doesn’t say much about completion, total, quality, or repeated or thrown away work.
It could also mean that 9 till 5 people don’t like change and people who are willing to go the extra mile are willing to explore AI.
Going the extra mile tends to burn people out. It’s profitable only if workers are a commodity that can be replaced and thrown out like garbage when inevitably broken.
Oh yeah. America.
“but at least they’re causing more fossil fuels to be burnt and that’s why we all exist in the first place” /s
Hahaha
thats because 90 mins is spent re-reviewing the AI-generated tasks/codes.
My colleague: I created an AI skill for the review.
Cleaning up the mess for a lesser final product.
the greater issue imo is how its really not bad anymore, sure you still have to babysit it, but its improved significantly without any sort of regulations or laws in place to protect workers
Oh…I dunno… we have to use it where I work… I’ve got it integrated into my IDE… I use it to write regex statements…most of the time it fucks it up, on the off chance it gets it right, it tries to nuke my git repo
“Working”
Meanwhile I’m having a great time doing the actual fun part — the programming.
Probably because they fired 10% of rhe workforce based on promised AI usage returns on investment.
LMAO….
And some troll was arguing with me a month or so ago about how technology supposedly reduces workloads.
I kept explaining to them how any increases in efficiency only lead their employers to give them more work to do. The laborers are still milked for the value of their labor, in some cases for even longer hours. The only difference is the employer benefits from the increased production.
They seriously tried arguing that the industrial revolution was somehow good for textile workers. Like no, traditional craftspeople got run out of business because they couldn’t keep up with the sweatshops that employed children in dangerous conditions for absurdly long hours for very little pay with no days off, and all just to create a soulless product that could be sold in larger quantities.
AI is no different, except that it doesn’t even increase profits for the employers.
Harris Tweed must, by law, be made by home weavers on non-electric looms, in the weavers’ own homes on the Outer Hebrides Islands:
Harris Tweed® is a tweed which must, by law, be produced from yarn which is made from 100% pure new wool which has been dyed and spun in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland and woven by hand at homes of local islanders. It is the only fabric in the world to have its own Act of Parliament.
They saw the value of keeping the traditions alive, and even wrote it into law.
Sure. What allows workers to be more productive means… more work.
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The worker of the [year] 2000 will work just 20 hours per week
Oops, we forgot to account for employers existing.
I CAN’T STOP WINNING!
