• Dogiedog64@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    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.

    • daannii@lemmy.world
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      17 hours ago

      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.

  • tigermountain@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    Why don’t we just start with a mandatory 4 day work week and see how many people want to work on Friday.

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    18 hours ago

    Yeah dude, busy playing Metroid and going surfing, not busy completing four hours of unskippable corporate training for the third time this month

  • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca
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    17 hours ago

    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…

  • Furbag@pawb.social
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    18 hours ago

    It sure is convenient that the business owners are always reporting on their findings that support their business models!

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    19 hours ago

    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

    • Einskjaldi@lemmy.world
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      19 hours ago

      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.

  • Seth Taylor@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    Sam!!! You promised you wouldn’t tell anyone. Oh my gosh, I’m so embarassed everyone knows my secret now. 🤭

  • Seeker of Carcosa@feddit.uk
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    21 hours ago

    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.

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      17 hours ago

      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.

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    1 day ago

    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.