I'm a software engineer, completing 10 years of professional experience this year. I started my career as a web frontend engineer (it was easier for me to de...
Give it time. My software career is also affected. At the rate they’re spending money at an order of magnitude higher than they’re making. They’ve also all borrowed money from each other. It’s going to collapse in a big heap. Hopefully before it sucks in mum and dad investors.
Just like the housing market which the government bailed out at our expense. And housing prices continue to outpace salaries. There’s a strong possibility that this is a permanently-forced inefficiency.
I’m not so sure. The AI hate in the general population is real. The fact that all these companies immediately claimed to replace all human labor within months, made them the enemy of the people, regardless how false these predictions were.
Banks are not liked either, but they are not hated in the same way. At least in the general public a mortgage seems to be the responsibility of both parties. “So the banks speculated, we still need houses and mortgages.”
I’m not so sure you can explain away the AI bubble that easily. Occupy Wallstreet will be a small affair in comparison.
I’m fairly pessimistic about the future. Occupy Wallstreet was a total failure. A bigger version can still be a total failure. We’ve been in a cyberpunk dystopia since 9/11, totally and transparently owned by megacorporations. I can easily see an AI-powered police state dramatically wasting energy to dominate the population.
Sure, but we need to also avoid situations where we are simply following its protocols while thinking that we’re fighting it. Occupy Wallstreet just vented our energy, and then we went back to work while the same processes accelerated. Terrorism always just increases the power of the police state. Both of these things operate within the protocols of the cyberpunk dystopia, and ultimately facilitate its growth.
The cyberpunk dystopia wants you to fight it. It wants a strong immune system. It wants you to test its boundaries. But I’m not suggesting complacence either.
I would reframe "fighting the cyberpunk dystopia no matter what" into something more human-affirming, just as a starting point. Human communities, human learning and expression, homesteading and communing with nature, anything DIY and IRL, I think all these things are more positive than falling into the excitement-trap of believing that you’re “fighting” the monopoly on violence.
If you’re in the US, social security isn’t going to be funding anyone by then either. So, I hope you have enough money to live off of and pay out of pocket medical. 🙁
Give it time. My software career is also affected. At the rate they’re spending money at an order of magnitude higher than they’re making. They’ve also all borrowed money from each other. It’s going to collapse in a big heap. Hopefully before it sucks in mum and dad investors.
Just like the housing market which the government bailed out at our expense. And housing prices continue to outpace salaries. There’s a strong possibility that this is a permanently-forced inefficiency.
I’m not so sure. The AI hate in the general population is real. The fact that all these companies immediately claimed to replace all human labor within months, made them the enemy of the people, regardless how false these predictions were.
Banks are not liked either, but they are not hated in the same way. At least in the general public a mortgage seems to be the responsibility of both parties. “So the banks speculated, we still need houses and mortgages.”
I’m not so sure you can explain away the AI bubble that easily. Occupy Wallstreet will be a small affair in comparison.
I’m fairly pessimistic about the future. Occupy Wallstreet was a total failure. A bigger version can still be a total failure. We’ve been in a cyberpunk dystopia since 9/11, totally and transparently owned by megacorporations. I can easily see an AI-powered police state dramatically wasting energy to dominate the population.
I’ll frame your comment and hang it om my wall.
We need to fight against a cyberpunk future no matter what.
Sure, but we need to also avoid situations where we are simply following its protocols while thinking that we’re fighting it. Occupy Wallstreet just vented our energy, and then we went back to work while the same processes accelerated. Terrorism always just increases the power of the police state. Both of these things operate within the protocols of the cyberpunk dystopia, and ultimately facilitate its growth.
The cyberpunk dystopia wants you to fight it. It wants a strong immune system. It wants you to test its boundaries. But I’m not suggesting complacence either.
I would reframe "fighting the cyberpunk dystopia no matter what" into something more human-affirming, just as a starting point. Human communities, human learning and expression, homesteading and communing with nature, anything DIY and IRL, I think all these things are more positive than falling into the excitement-trap of believing that you’re “fighting” the monopoly on violence.
It’s gonna be about a decade more.
I’ll be retired by then.
If you’re in the US, social security isn’t going to be funding anyone by then either. So, I hope you have enough money to live off of and pay out of pocket medical. 🙁
That’s the plan, else I wouldn’t be retiring.
I’ll tag you a ‘rich bitch’ so we can have proper interactions in the future. Enjoy your retirement, truly.
I’m not sure what that’s supposed to mean.