writing, explaining things to people, friendships where you can be of any use to one another, taking pride in skills, thinking, learning, figuring out how to achieve things, making things, easy tracking of what is and isn’t conscious
Used to be, we enjoyed doing those things ourselves through a special uniquely-human flavor of being clever.
Seems like post-AI, we’ll get to those things through a special uniquely-human flavor of being un-clever.
It doesn’t make sense to judge human accomplishment and effort differently from that of AI—but humans are great at choosing to do things which don’t make sense when it suits us to. Living a generally enjoyable life despite not being particularly good at things compared to the other entities around us is a skill rather anthithetical to this community’s values, but it does exist in plenty of cultures of the human population. Call it instrumental irrationality, perhaps.
Those of us who’ve pinned our self-worth on being better at computers than the computers are, though, are in for a bad time of a magnitude that may warrant replacing that entire part of the worldview to reach happiness.
Used to be, we enjoyed doing those things ourselves through a special uniquely-human flavor of being clever.
Seems like post-AI, we’ll get to those things through a special uniquely-human flavor of being un-clever.
It doesn’t make sense to judge human accomplishment and effort differently from that of AI—but humans are great at choosing to do things which don’t make sense when it suits us to. Living a generally enjoyable life despite not being particularly good at things compared to the other entities around us is a skill rather anthithetical to this community’s values, but it does exist in plenty of cultures of the human population. Call it instrumental irrationality, perhaps.
Those of us who’ve pinned our self-worth on being better at computers than the computers are, though, are in for a bad time of a magnitude that may warrant replacing that entire part of the worldview to reach happiness.