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> it also will solve everything that makes life worthwhile.

It's going to solve your kids? Or eating food? Or enjoying fresh air?

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Or strengthen your partnership with your dog by hiking together and working on agility training, tracking trials, and obedience.

Build a garden and harvest food, creating a bee- and butterfly-friendly environment while watching the little beasties feed on the bounty supplied by the plants' sex organs.

With the magic of grit and glass, make a telescope, then spend evenings observing with your organic eye, planets, and waiting for those moments of atmospheric stability and clarity when you see the most amazing detail.

AI won't keep me from any of these things, but the need for money to live does.


"I consume things". Great life you have there bro.

yeah, fresh air, appreciating parenting, how awful and dystopian

much worse than having one's identity entirely subsumed by typing code and reading software documentation


I mean, sure, if it's enough to satisfy a dog, why wouldn't it be what everyone wants. Maybe the AI will even remember to play fetch with you.

Intellectual anything? Doing things? Pfft. Just breathe the fresh forest fire air in the fresh, new, brightly incinerated climate we're building towards. It's all anyone could ever aspire to leave their children.




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