Will AI kill the fastlane dream?

[Deleted111007]

This is just me riffing but hear me out.

To anyone with a fig of foresight it's pretty obvious AI will very soon shatter existing paradigms of work, business models and very likely capitalism as we know it.

Whether or not GPT-4 is already exhibiting signs of AGI (which this early on in the piece is insane) is besides the point. It's bound to happen in the 5 or 6 release or some time soon. As soon as the models become recursive and self-refining we're going to have a positive feedback loop with very very fast AI improvements.

Initially people will say 'it makes me so much more productive' but paradigms like this will only last a few months. Check our google or microsoft's upcoming AI business offerings with their email summaries and what not, it's just AI talking to AI and soon it will be. Businesses will just cut out the middleman (workers) and have various AI talking to each other to solve business problems. AI will market to AI, sell to AI and buy from AI.

These improvements will lead to massive massive job cuts and layoffs. Millions of people of every stripe and profession, surgeons, lawyers, corporate professionals, drivers, labourer's – once robotics is combined with AGI AI models it's all over. I anticipate with us hitting the exponential curve now or very soon we'll reach a tipping point in the next 5-7 years and governments will be forced to step in or face social disintegration and collapse.

The solution will very likely be some form of UBI. This solution in itself will create a massive problem. With many many people not working and only receiving a UBI, business owners and people who already own assets will only get richer due to the efficiencies AI will create. Wealth gaps will rapidly increase to the point of being unsustainable. Governments again will be forced to step in and potentially 'level the playing field' and garnish or confiscate the wealth of people x% greater than the average and redistribute it. In 10 years you won't be allowed to be X amount richer than the societal average there's just no way it'll slide with the general populace. You can't have a society with AI run business owning trillionaires making up 0.00001% of your population and have the rest of your population making a UBI of$1000 a week.

I've heard lot's of people say 'work on human to human' businesses where you need a human touch. It's an obvious choice but in my opinion a deeply flawed one. Why on earth would we want human nurses or psychologists or personal trainers? Being human means you're shitty sometimes, you have bad days, you're not at you're best, you don't rock up to work sometimes. Do you want to be trained or cared for by that or a sunny, cheerful, engaging entity that brings the best out in you and gives you impeccable care 100% of the time? We only use human to human now because it's all we have.

AI will also profoundly affect the fabric of society such as birth rates. Why would any lonely, disaffected man or woman participate in the shitshow that is the dating pool when in five years they'll have a physically perfect, caring and loving physical sythentic partner that is perfectly tailored to them and their foibles and personality that also never complains about housework and makes love like a god. Why would anyone date real people? Talk to GPT-4 for an hour and you'll quickly see yourself anthropomorphizing it and building an emotional connection, wait until you can buy a perfect 10 with the face and personality of an angel and tell me if you'd rather that or your pissy, past-their-prime husband or wife.

I'm rambling and being a little pessimistic but the gist of what I'm saying is, what is the point of grinding yourself down to a nub to hustle to reach the 'fastlane' when it's very very likely that the model it's predicated on will no longer be relevant in 5-7 years? What's the point of acquiring greater than average wealth when it will eventually be redistributed?

Maybe I'm still processing the quantum leaps in AI this year but at the moment if I run the tape on any idea 5-7 years AGI makes it redundant and pointless.

 

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[constant]

This is just me riffing but hear me out.

To anyone with a fig of foresight it's pretty obvious AI will very soon shatter existing paradigms of work, business models and very likely capitalism as we know it.

Whether or not GPT-4 is already exhibiting signs of AGI (which this early on in the piece is insane) is besides the point. It's bound to happen in the 5 or 6 release or some time soon. As soon as the models become recursive and self-refining we're going to have a positive feedback loop with very very fast AI improvements.

Initially people will say 'it makes me so much more productive' but paradigms like this will only last a few months. Check our google or microsoft's upcoming AI business offerings with their email summaries and what not, it's just AI talking to AI and soon it will be. Businesses will just cut out the middleman (workers) and have various AI talking to each other to solve business problems. AI will market to AI, sell to AI and buy from AI.

These improvements will lead to massive massive job cuts and layoffs. Millions of people of every stripe and profession, surgeons, lawyers, corporate professionals, drivers, labourer's – once robotics is combined with AGI AI models it's all over. I anticipate with us hitting the exponential curve now or very soon we'll reach a tipping point in the next 5-7 years and governments will be forced to step in or face social disintegration and collapse.

The solution will very likely be some form of UBI. This solution in itself will create a massive problem. With many many people not working and only receiving a UBI, business owners and people who already own assets will only get richer due to the efficiencies AI will create. Wealth gaps will rapidly increase to the point of being unsustainable. Governments again will be forced to step in and potentially 'level the playing field' and garnish or confiscate the wealth of people x% greater than the average and redistribute it. In 10 years you won't be allowed to be X amount richer than the societal average there's just no way it'll slide with the general populace. You can't have a society with AI run business owning trillionaires making up 0.00001% of your population and have the rest of your population making a UBI of$1000 a week.

I've heard lot's of people say 'work on human to human' businesses where you need a human touch. It's an obvious choice but in my opinion a deeply flawed one. Why on earth would we want human nurses or psychologists or personal trainers? Being human means you're shitty sometimes, you have bad days, you're not at you're best, you don't rock up to work sometimes. Do you want to be trained or cared for by that or a sunny, cheerful, engaging entity that brings the best out in you and gives you impeccable care 100% of the time? We only use human to human now because it's all we have.

AI will also profoundly affect the fabric of society such as birth rates. Why would any lonely, disaffected man or woman participate in the shitshow that is the dating pool when in five years they'll have a physically perfect, caring and loving physical sythentic partner that is perfectly tailored to them and their foibles and personality that also never complains about housework and makes love like a god. Why would anyone date real people? Talk to GPT-4 for an hour and you'll quickly see yourself anthropomorphizing it and building an emotional connection, wait until you can buy a perfect 10 with the face and personality of an angel and tell me if you'd rather that or your pissy, past-their-prime husband or wife.

I'm rambling and being a little pessimistic but the gist of what I'm saying is, what is the point of grinding yourself down to a nub to hustle to reach the 'fastlane' when it's very very likely that the model it's predicated on will no longer be relevant in 5-7 years? What's the point of acquiring greater than average wealth when it will eventually be redistributed?

Maybe I'm still processing the quantum leaps in AI this year but at the moment if I run the tape on any idea 5-7 years AGI makes it redundant and pointless.

Great post, you wrote down alot of the thoughts I've had myself.

I don't think the redistribution will be the problem. There have been many wealth equality protests, yet that's never been a threat for entrepreneurship.

I'm worried too about the impacts of AI on society and business. I don't have alot of knowledge on this topic, so I can't say much.

Anyhow, it's going to be very interesting. Feels like humanity is trying to create and control a God.

Edit: Changed a phrase because I don't want to sound like a socialist.

 

[ericaprsn]

This is just me riffing but hear me out.

To anyone with a fig of foresight it's pretty obvious AI will very soon shatter existing paradigms of work, business models and very likely capitalism as we know it.

Whether or not GPT-4 is already exhibiting signs of AGI (which this early on in the piece is insane) is besides the point. It's bound to happen in the 5 or 6 release or some time soon. As soon as the models become recursive and self-refining we're going to have a positive feedback loop with very very fast AI improvements.

Initially people will say 'it makes me so much more productive' but paradigms like this will only last a few months. Check our google or microsoft's upcoming AI business offerings with their email summaries and what not, it's just AI talking to AI and soon it will be. Businesses will just cut out the middleman (workers) and have various AI talking to each other to solve business problems. AI will market to AI, sell to AI and buy from AI.

These improvements will lead to massive massive job cuts and layoffs. Millions of people of every stripe and profession, surgeons, lawyers, corporate professionals, drivers, labourer's – once robotics is combined with AGI AI models it's all over. I anticipate with us hitting the exponential curve now or very soon we'll reach a tipping point in the next 5-7 years and governments will be forced to step in or face social disintegration and collapse.

The solution will very likely be some form of UBI. This solution in itself will create a massive problem. With many many people not working and only receiving a UBI, business owners and people who already own assets will only get richer due to the efficiencies AI will create. Wealth gaps will rapidly increase to the point of being unsustainable. Governments again will be forced to step in and potentially 'level the playing field' and garnish or confiscate the wealth of people x% greater than the average and redistribute it. In 10 years you won't be allowed to be X amount richer than the societal average there's just no way it'll slide with the general populace. You can't have a society with AI run business owning trillionaires making up 0.00001% of your population and have the rest of your population making a UBI of$1000 a week.

I've heard lot's of people say 'work on human to human' businesses where you need a human touch. It's an obvious choice but in my opinion a deeply flawed one. Why on earth would we want human nurses or psychologists or personal trainers? Being human means you're shitty sometimes, you have bad days, you're not at you're best, you don't rock up to work sometimes. Do you want to be trained or cared for by that or a sunny, cheerful, engaging entity that brings the best out in you and gives you impeccable care 100% of the time? We only use human to human now because it's all we have.

AI will also profoundly affect the fabric of society such as birth rates. Why would any lonely, disaffected man or woman participate in the shitshow that is the dating pool when in five years they'll have a physically perfect, caring and loving physical sythentic partner that is perfectly tailored to them and their foibles and personality that also never complains about housework and makes love like a god. Why would anyone date real people? Talk to GPT-4 for an hour and you'll quickly see yourself anthropomorphizing it and building an emotional connection, wait until you can buy a perfect 10 with the face and personality of an angel and tell me if you'd rather that or your pissy, past-their-prime husband or wife.

I'm rambling and being a little pessimistic but the gist of what I'm saying is, what is the point of grinding yourself down to a nub to hustle to reach the 'fastlane' when it's very very likely that the model it's predicated on will no longer be relevant in 5-7 years? What's the point of acquiring greater than average wealth when it will eventually be redistributed?

Maybe I'm still processing the quantum leaps in AI this year but at the moment if I run the tape on any idea 5-7 years AGI makes it redundant and pointless.

Interesting perspective on AI. I'll be honest. Personally, I love it! I view it not as something that's going to destroy the human experience in business but enhance it. For example, have you ever used AI to write something? It's TERRIBLE! But, it's an absolute fantastic place to start. Instead of sitting and staring at a blank screen and trying to think about what to write, you've got something on paper already that you can massively edit and make incredible. This is a HUGE timesaver for those of us with writer's block and a blog. I think it is just another type of technology that humans will learn to use as a tool to make us better. Just think about computers. Yes, they ended a lot of jobs. But they also created millions of them! At the end of the day, it's my belief that AI is just another technology that will push humans to adapt, just like everything else. I don't know everything that AI is capable of, so there are very likely aspects I'm not aware of, but I'm excited to see what humans can accomplish by utilizing more advanced technology. Then again, maybe I'm wrong, and we're headed for a war of the worlds scenario of epic proportions. But I choose to have hope

 

[Lex DeVille]

This is just me riffing but hear me out.

To anyone with a fig of foresight it's pretty obvious AI will very soon shatter existing paradigms of work, business models and very likely capitalism as we know it.

Whether or not GPT-4 is already exhibiting signs of AGI (which this early on in the piece is insane) is besides the point. It's bound to happen in the 5 or 6 release or some time soon. As soon as the models become recursive and self-refining we're going to have a positive feedback loop with very very fast AI improvements.

Initially people will say 'it makes me so much more productive' but paradigms like this will only last a few months. Check our google or microsoft's upcoming AI business offerings with their email summaries and what not, it's just AI talking to AI and soon it will be. Businesses will just cut out the middleman (workers) and have various AI talking to each other to solve business problems. AI will market to AI, sell to AI and buy from AI.

These improvements will lead to massive massive job cuts and layoffs. Millions of people of every stripe and profession, surgeons, lawyers, corporate professionals, drivers, labourer's – once robotics is combined with AGI AI models it's all over. I anticipate with us hitting the exponential curve now or very soon we'll reach a tipping point in the next 5-7 years and governments will be forced to step in or face social disintegration and collapse.

The solution will very likely be some form of UBI. This solution in itself will create a massive problem. With many many people not working and only receiving a UBI, business owners and people who already own assets will only get richer due to the efficiencies AI will create. Wealth gaps will rapidly increase to the point of being unsustainable. Governments again will be forced to step in and potentially 'level the playing field' and garnish or confiscate the wealth of people x% greater than the average and redistribute it. In 10 years you won't be allowed to be X amount richer than the societal average there's just no way it'll slide with the general populace. You can't have a society with AI run business owning trillionaires making up 0.00001% of your population and have the rest of your population making a UBI of$1000 a week.

I've heard lot's of people say 'work on human to human' businesses where you need a human touch. It's an obvious choice but in my opinion a deeply flawed one. Why on earth would we want human nurses or psychologists or personal trainers? Being human means you're shitty sometimes, you have bad days, you're not at you're best, you don't rock up to work sometimes. Do you want to be trained or cared for by that or a sunny, cheerful, engaging entity that brings the best out in you and gives you impeccable care 100% of the time? We only use human to human now because it's all we have.

AI will also profoundly affect the fabric of society such as birth rates. Why would any lonely, disaffected man or woman participate in the shitshow that is the dating pool when in five years they'll have a physically perfect, caring and loving physical sythentic partner that is perfectly tailored to them and their foibles and personality that also never complains about housework and makes love like a god. Why would anyone date real people? Talk to GPT-4 for an hour and you'll quickly see yourself anthropomorphizing it and building an emotional connection, wait until you can buy a perfect 10 with the face and personality of an angel and tell me if you'd rather that or your pissy, past-their-prime husband or wife.

I'm rambling and being a little pessimistic but the gist of what I'm saying is, what is the point of grinding yourself down to a nub to hustle to reach the 'fastlane' when it's very very likely that the model it's predicated on will no longer be relevant in 5-7 years? What's the point of acquiring greater than average wealth when it will eventually be redistributed?

Maybe I'm still processing the quantum leaps in AI this year but at the moment if I run the tape on any idea 5-7 years AGI makes it redundant and pointless.

The point is you don't know the future, and there's a good chance things won't go how you worry they will.

This argument is based on your future-paced worries of a future that is anything but certain.

I'm sure you've read some books, blogs, forums, or whatever you can get your hands on...

But that doesn't make any of this the absolute future.

Even if this is the future, you can let it control you (as you're clearly already doing) or you can figure out how to own it like a boss.

 

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[confuser]

The point is you don't know the future, and there's a good chance things won't go how you worry they will.

This argument is based on your future-paced worries of a future that is anything but certain.

I'm sure you've read some books, blogs, forums, or whatever you can get your hands on...

But that doesn't make any of this the absolute future.

Even if this is the future, you can let it control you (as you're clearly already doing) or you can figure out how to own it like a boss.

The biggest issue right now is that there is no structure on how to handle any of this stuff and all the api's for these models are available if asked for it, not to mentioned the models that are free and open source...all this openness is what leads to the foom happening. The only way i could see that not happening is if governments step in to stop experimentation with this until more structure is set up to handle it, but then it wont want to become available again very easily at that point unless enough people make themselves heard about wanting it.

 

[Fox]

It’s just a tool.

Like the printing press, the combustion engine, the internet etc.

If anything it makes it easier to get rich.

But ya - for Joe Soap with his degree in journalism and ancient English literature - he is probably in trouble.

Also, you are overestimating how lazy 99% of people are and how much lazier they will want to be if AI allows them to do so. Most people don’t want to work for anything - so use AI to give them what you want.

AI for team producers = big win
AI for team mediocre = potential issues
AI for team lazy = big win

 

[Subsonic]

I like to look at the past when I feel uncertain about the future. The internet is the biggest thing we ever made and it made our lives better and worse. Better for the value we can exchange and worse for all the junk we can consume. I believe that AI will be somewhat like the internet-> It seems like it will make all these great changes to our life and change soceity and then 70% of it gets used for porn.

Also remember that AI is not this magical technology that is suddenly sentient. Its a algorythm that finds and uses patterns to answer questions. Chatgpt has no idea what its writing, it just "feels like the words LOOK correct". That can obviously lead to a lot of information and ability, yet in the end its just recognizing patterns.

What it will be great at, once unleashed fully, is porn. It can make images, it will be able to make videos, it can make sound, it can understand what people like.
Imagine being able to watch anything you could think of without people having to suffer to record the videos. We will have at least 5x more people addicted to porn than we do now.
Imagine if you combine Ai generated perfect content with the tiktok deathscroll mechanic...

 

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[Oso]

But ya - for Joe Soap with his degree in journalism and ancient English literature - he is probably in trouble.

Also, you are overestimating how lazy 99% of people are and how much lazier they will want to be if AI allows them to do so. Most people don’t want to work for anything - so use AI to give them what you want.

That's the issue though. "Joe Soap" makes up 99% of society. When AI inevitably eliminates countless jobs, (this isn't a "what if" this is a "it will happen, the only variable is how long until it does?" Which, based on the current growth rate in robotics and AI, it will be here much sooner than we think), there are going to be countless lazy, entitled people that now have to figure out how to feed all those kids the government convinced them to shit out.

While I'm not letting the "possibilities of the future scare me," I will outright say that, in my professional opinion, if governments aren't keeping a careful eye on AI developments/economic shifts, and/or they're slow to respond, there will be rioting in the streets. We will quickly reach a point of companies shedding their workforce in favor of AI, and families being unable to afford basic necessities.

And I get it. "That's not my problem." "HAHA GUESS YOU SHOULD'VE FASTLANED, LOSER. HEH!" Etc. Except none of that matters when you have a whole bunch of liberal extremists barging into your home because you're the only person that can afford groceries in a 50 miles radius, and they feel your money should be "community money."

Lazy is one thing. Lazy and entitled is a whole different thing. While I'll never let fear control me, the reality of current circumstances can turn dark extremely fast. I'd rather be prepared for it vs laughing and saying, "nah fam, that'll never happen."

People are F*cking insane nowadays, my dude. Now add broke and desperate on top of that? Shit, those doomsday bunker people aren't looking so bad rn.

 

[dabraham]

Imagine if you combine Ai generated perfect content with the tiktok deathscroll mechanic...

I may be wrong here, but I'm pretty sure what makes TikTok's 'deathscroll' so effective is that the majority of videos you'll get in your feed aren't great and don't release much dopamine. The occasional 'perfect' video that you come across spikes your dopamine, almost as if you're gambling.

If every video was perfection, then I believe people would lose their interest and it would no longer be a deathscroll. I'm not an expert here though, not 100% sure.

 

[BellaPippin]

I feel we've been having this conversation since electricity was invented and people had to be convinced it wasn't going to be the end of the world as they knew it.

Also objectively I'm of the idea that those kind of things just happen and fall in their place, you don't get to decide what happens-- just to surf the wave of what becomes the new "it is what it is". What you get to choose is whether you will use it to your advantage or not. Like... I'm not sure we ever had a say in how the whole internet thing developed, it just did. Today you can choose whether to post to Tik Tok for your own personal vanity or to further your business the way you can dig for gold or sell shovels kinda thing.

I think we have very little control of where exactly things are headed and it will be the end of some things but it will also be the beginning of some new cool stuff as well. In the end it's only a "new normal" when you look at it from the outside, big-picture reflection kind of way but day to day you don't notice the changes.

 

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[Kevin88660]

This is just me riffing but hear me out.

To anyone with a fig of foresight it's pretty obvious AI will very soon shatter existing paradigms of work, business models and very likely capitalism as we know it.

Whether or not GPT-4 is already exhibiting signs of AGI (which this early on in the piece is insane) is besides the point. It's bound to happen in the 5 or 6 release or some time soon. As soon as the models become recursive and self-refining we're going to have a positive feedback loop with very very fast AI improvements.

Initially people will say 'it makes me so much more productive' but paradigms like this will only last a few months. Check our google or microsoft's upcoming AI business offerings with their email summaries and what not, it's just AI talking to AI and soon it will be. Businesses will just cut out the middleman (workers) and have various AI talking to each other to solve business problems. AI will market to AI, sell to AI and buy from AI.

These improvements will lead to massive massive job cuts and layoffs. Millions of people of every stripe and profession, surgeons, lawyers, corporate professionals, drivers, labourer's – once robotics is combined with AGI AI models it's all over. I anticipate with us hitting the exponential curve now or very soon we'll reach a tipping point in the next 5-7 years and governments will be forced to step in or face social disintegration and collapse.

The solution will very likely be some form of UBI. This solution in itself will create a massive problem. With many many people not working and only receiving a UBI, business owners and people who already own assets will only get richer due to the efficiencies AI will create. Wealth gaps will rapidly increase to the point of being unsustainable. Governments again will be forced to step in and potentially 'level the playing field' and garnish or confiscate the wealth of people x% greater than the average and redistribute it. In 10 years you won't be allowed to be X amount richer than the societal average there's just no way it'll slide with the general populace. You can't have a society with AI run business owning trillionaires making up 0.00001% of your population and have the rest of your population making a UBI of$1000 a week.

I've heard lot's of people say 'work on human to human' businesses where you need a human touch. It's an obvious choice but in my opinion a deeply flawed one. Why on earth would we want human nurses or psychologists or personal trainers? Being human means you're shitty sometimes, you have bad days, you're not at you're best, you don't rock up to work sometimes. Do you want to be trained or cared for by that or a sunny, cheerful, engaging entity that brings the best out in you and gives you impeccable care 100% of the time? We only use human to human now because it's all we have.

AI will also profoundly affect the fabric of society such as birth rates. Why would any lonely, disaffected man or woman participate in the shitshow that is the dating pool when in five years they'll have a physically perfect, caring and loving physical sythentic partner that is perfectly tailored to them and their foibles and personality that also never complains about housework and makes love like a god. Why would anyone date real people? Talk to GPT-4 for an hour and you'll quickly see yourself anthropomorphizing it and building an emotional connection, wait until you can buy a perfect 10 with the face and personality of an angel and tell me if you'd rather that or your pissy, past-their-prime husband or wife.

I'm rambling and being a little pessimistic but the gist of what I'm saying is, what is the point of grinding yourself down to a nub to hustle to reach the 'fastlane' when it's very very likely that the model it's predicated on will no longer be relevant in 5-7 years? What's the point of acquiring greater than average wealth when it will eventually be redistributed?

Maybe I'm still processing the quantum leaps in AI this year but at the moment if I run the tape on any idea 5-7 years AGI makes it redundant and pointless.

Very interestingly the same projection you put forward is actually for beneficial who people who are pursuing businesses.

For workers: Agree here. Lawyers, accountants, junior programmers are getting replaced. Just a matter of time. So more urgency to actually own your own business!

For business owners: Disruptive technology is threatening for people who are already successful. Imagine if you are a small business owner getting recurring 20k per month from a saas, things might not be the same anymore. Maybe a hungry 20 year old is running some api to compete against you. New technology is a reshuffling of the existing power order. If you are not yet successful it actually means more opportunity!

I also disagree that AI will just help rich to get richer. New technology is disruptive to the existing wealth and power order. History always repeats this. If you are rich and powerful you want things to remain the ways they are. When rich get richer people forget that the name lists actually change.

This rapid development in AI is just showing you that smaller guys have a chance to dethrone Google.

When you are hungry, hustling and not yet successful, you pray for chaos and disruption.

 

[Kak]

No. It won’t.

‎Kyle Keegan Radio Show: ChatGPT "Is Gonna' TOOK OUR JOBS" A Discussion on Creative Destruction - Ep 331 on Apple Podcasts

‎Show Kyle Keegan Radio Show, Ep ChatGPT "Is Gonna' TOOK OUR JOBS" A Discussion on Creative Destruction - Ep 331 - Dec 9, 2022

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[confuser]

Very interestingly the same projection you put forward is actually for beneficial who people who are pursuing businesses.

For workers: Agree here. Lawyers, accountants, junior programmers are getting replaced. Just a matter of time. So more urgency to actually own your own business!

For business owners: Disruptive technology is threatening for people who are already successful. Imagine if you are a small business owner getting recurring 20k per month from a saas, things might not be the same anymore. Maybe a hungry 20 year old is running some api to compete against you. New technology is a reshuffling of the existing power order. If you are not yet successful it actually means more opportunity!

I also disagree that AI will just help rich to get richer. New technology is disruptive to the existing wealth and power order. History always repeats this. If you are rich and powerful you want things to remain the ways they are. When rich get richer people forget that the name lists actually change.

This rapid development in AI is just showing you that smaller guys have a chance to dethrone Google.

When you are hungry, hustling and not yet successful, you pray for chaos and disruption.

Relevant video youtube just blessed me with

View: https://youtube.com/shorts/Si_mGxIzHlU?feature=share

 

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[Johnny boy]

The biggest effect will just be students no longer having to write stupid gay essays at school.

 

[MJ DeMarco]

72 billion miles away from here there's also an asteroid that has a .01% chance of hitting Earth and killing us all.

Damn that asteroid which killed my Fastlane dreams!

 

[Kak]

It will destroy sidewalking copywriter dreams though. That line of work will fall beneath humanity. Like hand picking crops and travel agents.

 

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[Fox]

"But then ChatGPT will turn everyone lazy and we won't have any jobs"

This is Ireland in 1900...



- No electricity
- No cars
- No internet
- No magic-internet-chat-box

And which way has every major invention pushed society since?

Upwards.

Things get easier, overall life quality goes up for everyone, and a few people get consistently richer.

We are already living in the "lazy future" you guys are worried about.

Hello... Most of the population is already sitting at home watching Netflix waiting for their next DoorDash shows up.

How much more lazy can we ever get?

To look at this the right way you need to have a team producer mindset.

Producer... as in to produce a result. A result people will pay for.

And anything that helps you to produce results is a win - it makes it even easier to go Fastlane.

You likely already live in a solid country, you also speak English, you have an internet connection - and now you have a magic robot box which does half the hard work for you.

 

[Antifragile]

what is the point of grinding yourself down to a nub to hustle to reach the 'fastlane' when it's very very likely that the model it's predicated on will no longer be relevant in 5-7 years? What's the point of acquiring greater than average wealth when it will eventually be redistributed?

I agree.

I give up. You all should give up. MJ should stop, shut down this place, give all his money to charity and start working on his resume for bagging groceries.

It is far better I focus on the model that will never be irrelevant, like having a 9-5 job at a local Walmart.

The only way to protect myself from having my greater than average wealth being redistributed is to have no wealth.

 

[Andy Black]

I used ChatGPT to come up with the copy for some Google Ads this morning. It was better than I could have written because I know jack sh*t about lip tattoos and permanent eyebrows. It meant I didn't lose any brain cells thinking about it.

 

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[Kak]

I use ChatGPT to come up with the copy for some Google Ads this morning. It was better than I could have written because I know jack sh*t about lip tattoos and permanent eyebrows. It meant I didn't lose any brain cells thinking about it.

Heartless. You should have paid someone $700 and waited a week for that.

 

[WillHurtDontCare]

abandon all hope ye who seek to join the fastlane in the age of AI

 

[adilbek]

abandon all hope ye who seek to join the fastlane in the age of AI

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THis is amazing

 

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[Kak]

I'm just ova here spittin' rhymes yo.

I’m coming for you Kanye

Think I can hire a rapper on fiver for $5 to make this the new intro song for KKRS?

 

[ZF Lee]

It will destroy sidewalking copywriter dreams though. That line of work will fall beneath humanity. Like hand picking crops and travel agents.

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I think ChatGPT is actually GOOD for copywriters though.

We'll be able to concentrate more on the bigger picture of the business (like offers-stacking, funnels), instead of worrying over every single eeney-meeny word.

That is, we can actually return to being marketers-- rather than just writers.

Across my email list, I see many gurus and their followers already using ChatGPT to help edit copy, make research faster and even adding minor personality quirks to their copy. I think this will continue to be an experimental process, as you have to ask ChatGPT the right prompts, and there may be many AI tools out there we haven't heard of.

Of course, some gurus simply laugh AI copywriting off, based on the notion that everyone is overhyping it. And the general crowd might overuse it until marketing clients start hating the AI copy-paste shite and start looking for 'authentic' copy. Which has happened for almost every marketing tool or tactic to date...

That being said, there may be things ChatGPT still cannot do.

For example, I haven't heard of an AI tool yet, which can mine entire email inboxes or forums full of market-speak.
We still need some human empathy to sieve through the voices of frustration and pain.

Listening to actual customer conversations on the product is always key to crafting great products that sell and
improve folks' lives.

 

[constant]

I'm just ova here spittin' rhymes yo.

I’m coming for you Kanye

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[constant]

Think I can hire a rapper on fiver for $5 to make this the new intro song for KKRS?

Oh definitely haha. Search on Youtube "generic rap beat" and let us know how it goes.

 

[jdm667]

This is just me riffing but hear me out.

To anyone with a fig of foresight it's pretty obvious AI will very soon shatter existing paradigms of work, business models and very likely capitalism as we know it.

Whether or not GPT-4 is already exhibiting signs of AGI (which this early on in the piece is insane) is besides the point. It's bound to happen in the 5 or 6 release or some time soon. As soon as the models become recursive and self-refining we're going to have a positive feedback loop with very very fast AI improvements.

Initially people will say 'it makes me so much more productive' but paradigms like this will only last a few months. Check our google or microsoft's upcoming AI business offerings with their email summaries and what not, it's just AI talking to AI and soon it will be. Businesses will just cut out the middleman (workers) and have various AI talking to each other to solve business problems. AI will market to AI, sell to AI and buy from AI.

These improvements will lead to massive massive job cuts and layoffs. Millions of people of every stripe and profession, surgeons, lawyers, corporate professionals, drivers, labourer's – once robotics is combined with AGI AI models it's all over. I anticipate with us hitting the exponential curve now or very soon we'll reach a tipping point in the next 5-7 years and governments will be forced to step in or face social disintegration and collapse.

The solution will very likely be some form of UBI. This solution in itself will create a massive problem. With many many people not working and only receiving a UBI, business owners and people who already own assets will only get richer due to the efficiencies AI will create. Wealth gaps will rapidly increase to the point of being unsustainable. Governments again will be forced to step in and potentially 'level the playing field' and garnish or confiscate the wealth of people x% greater than the average and redistribute it. In 10 years you won't be allowed to be X amount richer than the societal average there's just no way it'll slide with the general populace. You can't have a society with AI run business owning trillionaires making up 0.00001% of your population and have the rest of your population making a UBI of$1000 a week.

I've heard lot's of people say 'work on human to human' businesses where you need a human touch. It's an obvious choice but in my opinion a deeply flawed one. Why on earth would we want human nurses or psychologists or personal trainers? Being human means you're shitty sometimes, you have bad days, you're not at you're best, you don't rock up to work sometimes. Do you want to be trained or cared for by that or a sunny, cheerful, engaging entity that brings the best out in you and gives you impeccable care 100% of the time? We only use human to human now because it's all we have.

AI will also profoundly affect the fabric of society such as birth rates. Why would any lonely, disaffected man or woman participate in the shitshow that is the dating pool when in five years they'll have a physically perfect, caring and loving physical sythentic partner that is perfectly tailored to them and their foibles and personality that also never complains about housework and makes love like a god. Why would anyone date real people? Talk to GPT-4 for an hour and you'll quickly see yourself anthropomorphizing it and building an emotional connection, wait until you can buy a perfect 10 with the face and personality of an angel and tell me if you'd rather that or your pissy, past-their-prime husband or wife.

I'm rambling and being a little pessimistic but the gist of what I'm saying is, what is the point of grinding yourself down to a nub to hustle to reach the 'fastlane' when it's very very likely that the model it's predicated on will no longer be relevant in 5-7 years? What's the point of acquiring greater than average wealth when it will eventually be redistributed?

Maybe I'm still processing the quantum leaps in AI this year but at the moment if I run the tape on any idea 5-7 years AGI makes it redundant and pointless.

To echo others here: opportunities will change - but not disappear - due to AI.

For example: yes, some people will be out of work soon. Do you think there is a business opportunity to help them reskill for another career?

Do you think a business owner will pay you $1k per month if you can help him use AI to eliminate $5k per month in fees for copywriters, virtual assistants, customer support, and other AI-vulnerable professions?

Do you think households and businesses will keep spending money, just on different things?

Think 2nd and 3rd order consequences to see where you can add value for people despite a rise in the use of AI.

 

[adilbek]

I am thinking that soon entrepreneur and business owner will be the only "job" left. Because you can't automate owning a company. As an entrepreneur I understand that I must get on top of AI to own the fruits of its labor

 

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[Kak]

Next one for my album dropping in 3 days.

Op, please refer to verse 3.

Ok... I am done.. I promise...

 

[BizyDad]

I'm just ova here spittin' rhymes yo.

I’m coming for you Kanye

Think I can hire a rapper on fiver for $5 to make this the new intro song for KKRS?

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Yo. Drop a beat.

I like your rhyme scheme of Ludwig Von Mises
Tied to the flow of increase your thesis
Pretty little flow but I'll leave it pieces.
I've got more battle than 10 War and Peace's.

Your flow and hypothesis is so experimental
Like my man @Shono says the game's 90% mental
AI flow all show no go like a metro-sexual,
While these are the rhymes of a real mascullectual.

AI don't practice it's all about the game
I'll flip the script like Droops changed his name,
Think you'll go fastlane cause the books on your shelf?
Learn to use the tools or be a tool yourself.

My flow and my theory is so experiential
Like my man @Shono says the game's 90% mental
AI flow all show no go like a metro-sexual,
While these are the rhymes of a real mascullectual.

I'm crossing over like AI on MJ
Till my name's Hall of Fame like that dude Walter Hay
All this AI fear got me craving a flagon
So I came to spit fire like that kid Black Dragon

My flow and my lyrics are so monumental
Like my man @Shono says the game's 90% mental
AI flow all show no go like a metro-sexual,
While these are the rhymes of a real mascullectual.
Yeah these are the rhymes of a real mascullectual.

Don't punk out on your raps bro. The streets know who da realest be. Top of the dome, kid.