Jerkface @ Jerkface @lemmy.world

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I use ChatGPT for math tutoring occasionally and when I started using the prompt "Suppose you are a professional mathematician," I got fewer responses resembling those you might get from a classmate and more which were thorough and rigorous.

Fuck yeah. I mean, just look at Always Sunny. QED.

I want to avoid using the term solution, not least of all because implementation has its own set of challenges, but some of us used to dream that automation would do that work for us. Perhaps naively, some of us assumed that people just wouldn't have to work as much. And perhaps I continue to be naive in thinking that that should still be our end goal. If automation reduces the required work hours by 20% with no reduction in profit, full time workers should have a 32 hour week with no reduction in income.

But since employers will always pocket that money if given the option, we need more unionization, we need unions to fight for better contracts, we need legislation that will protect and facilitate them, and we need progressive taxation that will decouple workers most essential needs from their employers so they have more of a say in where and how they work, be that universal public services, minimum income guarantee, or what have you.

We're quite far behind in this fight but there has been some recent progress about which I am pretty optimistic.

Edit: for clarification

The take is "let's not forget to hold people accountable for the shitty things they do." AI is not a killing machine. Guns aren't particularly productive.

In general, progressive taxation can do quite a lot to ease the widening wealth gap. One such strategy is the robot tax. There exist other, perhaps better, legislative solutions, but more broadly we need to restore voting rights and diminish the influence the wealthy have on our political system so that smart, progressive legislation doesn't have to fight tooth and nail against lobbying and other mechanisms that tie wealth to political influence.

I fully agree with everything you said. My point is more that if we look at AI as the culprit, we're missing the point. If I may examine the language you are using a bit-

AI removes thought work.

Employers are the agents. They remove thought work.

it will also decimate workers.

Employers will decimate workers.

It would be smart to enact legislation that will mitigate the damage employers enabled by AI will do to wokers, but they will continue to exploit us regardless.

Using language that makes AI the antagonist helps tyrants deflect their overwhelming share of the blame. The responsible parties are people, who can and should be held accountable.

Sounds like NYC police are the problem in that scenario.

People have had the same concerns about automation since basically forever. Automation isn't the problem. The people who use automation to perpetuate the systems that work against us will continue to find creative ways to exploit us with or without AI. Those people and those systems-- they are the problem. And believe it or not, that problem is imminently solvable.

Livin' the dream.

It's a bit before my time, but I believe this is microfilm. I still see these at the library but I've never had any reason to use one.

But the extra day off was viewed by management as a gift and added more pressure during the four days people were at work

That's not how gifts work.

Facebook can do that because they have a Facebook button on every damn page on the Internet. They can see that your IP loaded the button from each individual site and build a profile that way. As far as I know Facebook et al have no assets hosted on Lemmy instances. If that's true, there's nothing to track.

I'll need to see some ID.

So whose children does Erin Mazzoni have access to?

Calm down, Euclid, calm down...

Give me weights for the coefficients and I'll construct a matrix

Nah, mate. Knowing something you didn't even bother to learn is the definition of common sense, which I made up myself.

They are not a for-profit organization. They get however much Congress gives them and that's it.

It's the old new wave with a fresh coat of paint.

It's my point of view that they created so much friction in the gameplay loop that players generally prefer logging to get their materials or whatever they need, and FDev's policy is "sure, whatever," because then they don't have to improve the gameplay.