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verdverm | on: We should be more ambitious with the software we build
> the software industry was already nearing its economic maturity

What I'm sensing is something I might describe as the Oligarchy reaching the point of significant societal pushback, like the labor rights movements that ended 80 work weeks, unsafe conditions, and child labor in factories (i.e. The Jungle).

My hope is that we can use this moment in human history to break the user tracking and targeted advertising industry. It's been so harmful to humans, but in doing so, we will likely break a major revenue source that supports our well above average salaries. I still think it should be done.

besterman23 | parent | next
What would be funny with LLMs, having been purposefully trained to be the best software creating things on earth, wind up inadvertently making software virtually valueless (because it can be made and copied so easily) and undermining the value of the companies that proliferated their use in the first place.
swiftcoder | root | parent | next
> What would be funny with LLMs, having been purposefully trained to be the best software creating things on earth, wind up inadvertently making software virtually valueless

This is the world the accelerationists are trying to create, is it not? Fully automated luxury space communism through AI solving all earthly problems.

We're just unlucky that software is one of the first moats to fall (alongside the humanities), because it doesn't require developing novel ways for the AI to interact with the real world...

verdverm | root | parent
We'll have to separate the hardware providers from the software providers, which I'm growing more fond of. The US Ai stack is largely a vertically integrated cartel.
azornathogron | parent
What indications do you see of significant and effective societal pushback?

I would love to believe this but I don't see it yet. I see a lot of anger in some circles, but I also see the machine marching on as normal.

verdverm | root | parent
Polls on specific issues (not candidates) that show 70%+ bipartisan. Talking to random people in the real world. (this is the way out)

We aren't there yet, but definitely headed that direction.