"I am of the opinion that A.I. can already do all of the jobs that we, as humans, do"
I think the most significant impact of the recent AI revolution is just to lower the bar of expectations humanity has for itself, thereby making a statement like that true.
Meanwhile the rest of us will not lower the bar and we resist getting fucked. This is precisely what pissed a lot of people off in the past and it will again.
I quit social media 12 years ago and it's been an amazing boost to my personal psychology and productivity. My life is 10x better without it. I've forgotten many acquaintances and gained many more, and forgotten them again. Life is like that, but the core group of people is there, and I'm happy with that.
Without looking at the actual report, it is a pretty meaningless statistic. Maybe it's more significant by job category, but if hiring can either go up or down, and you say about half think it's going down, you haven't suggested a non-trivial conclusion.
It's a brilliant marketing model. Humans are inherently highly interested in anything which could be a threat to their well-being. Everything they put out is a tacit promise that the viewer will soon be economically valueless.
I hope people will come to the realisation that we have created a good plagiarizer at best. The "intelligence" originates from the human beings who created the training data for these LLMs. The hype will die when reality hits.
Is there any reason not to believe that humans are so stupid and amoral that they would never support a complete overhaul of the food system which eliminates suffering in one go? Even the moral leader Noam Chomsky has publicly stated that he just doesn't care enough about animal suffering to think about it.
Probably the best animals are going to get are ad hoc reductions to their suffering which are aligned with decreased economic costs, or which target niche markets like vegans.
You can go through that in one pleasant sitting.
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