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> will solve everything that makes life worthwhile

Like programming? Or what else, I'm not sure I understand what that would mean.



Like problem solving, art, music, writing, and other intellectual challenges. And doing it well enough that you make an impact on the people around you.

Programming is one such creative endeavor, but they're all under attack.


Personally, when it comes to media and creative things, I want to hear from other humans. It could be other humans using AI as a tool, but I'm not interested in the Meta AI account slop they were promoting. Or the Spotify algorithm optimized playlist artists.

I don't think everyone will agree with me, and we might have truly AI generated movie and pop stars, but I think most people won't want synthetic art- it's missing the point of what art is for, for expressing something about humans.


Right now it's easy to say, because the AI generated stuff is so obviously bad. What if it were better than human output? What if the only way to tell was that the human sounded worse?

You're betting on AI continuing to be bad, or on humans rejecting it wholesale. While I wish humans would reject it, I'm not so optimistic.

For most people, art is just entertainment. For artists, it's a source of income.

AI can likely solve entertainment cheaper than artists can.


There is no AI in the world that can replace live AC/DC performance.


Sure, in a regression to the world pre-1900s, live shows may remain.


Live performance is already the better source of revenue for most musicians.


Yeah, we've been enshittifying things for a while, haven't we?




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