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And that’s basically it!
I mean honestly, no shit it won't shorten the work week, because no technological advancement has ever made us less busy. Only more. His reason is wrong and is just a bald faced lie to cover that he thinks it's a great way to milk out more blood from the stones these places are built on.
Sam Altman says
Opinion discarded
I’d like to interject for a moment, but what you’re actually referring as Sam Altman isn’t his actual name, but as I’ve taken to calling him Scam Altman
If i force myself to read anything he's said, i make sure i read it in that pre-pubescent voice of his. I can never get past the way it sounds like he's straining to summon enough energy to make sound come out of his mouth. The ideas that couple with that hideous noise just make the situation magnitudes worse
I do enjoy working a lot
Doesn’t mean I wouldn’t prefer to work shorter weeks for companies that profit from me
Then I can spend more time on my own projects which is more rewarding
People enjoy productivity. People love working on things. But they don't enjoy working on things for someone else, all while getting nothing out of it but some financial compensation for their time wasted.
One of the most awful feelings is being too exhausted to work on your own projects. It's so unfulfilling and anti-human nature.
some financial compensation for their time wasted.
*As minimal financial compensation as possible, which must be constantly fought over too.
Billionaires secretly enjoy guillotines.
Yes Sam, we are yearning for the mines, and for billionaires to abuse us even more...
He's half right. I enjoy being busy, as long as I'm doing things I want when I want. What my employer wants me to do is rarely on the top of that list.
Plantation owner assures us slaves enjoy the whip.
If you don't like working 50 hours a week until age 80 for a non living wage. It means you have work derangement syndrome. Totally a real thing.
Fuck man, if AI made it so I didn't have to work 40 hours a week just to live, you know what I'd be doing?
I'd be keeping busy about as much time per week, sure. But I'd be doing shit I WANT TO DO instead of maximizing Shareholder Value™️. Reading, motorcycling, brewing, baking, hiking...
Living. Not just working.
Unfortunately for us all, LLMs won't do that and never were designed for it. Instead they're tools of Fascist oppression, and should be destroyed.
Yes... Doing things we enjoy rather than working.
Here's the thing, I do love being busy...
Playing with my kid
Cleaning the house
Painting minis
Work busy is so far down the list
Yeah dude, busy playing Metroid and going surfing, not busy completing four hours of unskippable corporate training for the third time this month
Busy with what
This mfer thinks we don't do shit outside of working hours wtf
Why bother talking to guys like Sam? Why print what they say?
He isn't even an AI expert, his own employees have said so. He is just the adman.
It's probably just the usual of trying to appeal to people in power/higher position aka basic bootlicking.
Well yeah, i enjoy being busy. It's even kinda necessary for me due to ADHD, if i sit still with nothing to do for too long, days to weeks, early symptoms of depression start to slowly creep in which will get worse over time.
I'd just like to be busy with my interests and hobbies, not damned work. Even though I actually do like my work.
We like to be busy, not exploited and not waste our lives doing meaningless drivel.
I never feel more useless, isolated, and destroyed emotionally than when I am performing monotonous shitty tasks fixing fuckups that shouldn't have happened
and it just so happens that that seems to be the type of work that AI leaves behind for real people, so...
The tech bro billionaires have a bright future planned for humanity. When jobs disappear, they’re hoping we all start fighting and killing each other until disasters reduce the global Population. Meanwhile, they will be shacked up in their remote luxury resorts riding out events until there are a few million people left who can then work as their very own serfs
Oh no! My secret love for labor! I sure hope no one tries to reduce my quality of life by reducing my hours/full paycheck!
“Those peasants and their secret love for having food and a roof over their heads, lol. “
Weird, I thought I said Sam Altman could go fuck himself after the last awful thing he said, did nobody pass my message on?
It sure is convenient that the business owners are always reporting on their findings that support their business models!
Scam Faultman
I enjoy teaching and, provided I was guaranteed my needs and reasonable comforts were provided, would continue to teach for free. I doubt Altman’s talking about passionate people pursuing their passions free from the threat of financial ruin.
Megaloathe
"Sam Altman says..."
Who fucking cares?
Yeah, but like, being busy by doing things we enjoy doing
I retired young, at 38 years old. I'm not wealthy, just broken from 20 years of military service and receiving enough pay and benefits to cover my basic needs without having to work.
Do I want to be busy? Heck yeah! My days are so packed with stuff to do, I need to keep a schedule so I don't miss out on things going on in my life. I'm booked solid for at least a few years out on projects, events, socializing, and general fun activities.
Do I want to go back to work though? Fuck no. I gave up my personal freedom and a handful of my basic human rights to work for the govt for 2 decades. It's my time now.
I enjoy not having to wake up at god-awful hours of the morning. I enjoy not having to dress up and go to a job, where I'm stuck until a certain time of day regardless of my productivity level. I enjoy deciding each morning what my day is going to be like, or choosing not to face the day and just veg out in bed all day.
Most everyone wants to be busy. Most people want to live though, not work. I achieved that dream and get to live the rest of my life enjoying things. I just had to sacrifice my mind and body to "earn" it.
Saaaam. You promised you wouldn't tell anyone. Oh my gosh, I'm so embarassed everyone knows my secret now. 🤭
Yes ... busy doing the stuff we want to do, not busy doing the stuff we have to do for a boss we hate!
Why don't we just start with a mandatory 4 day work week and see how many people want to work on Friday.
Every time I think Altman has maxxed the “I am a complete fucking tool and a garbage human” metric, he manages to set the bar a little bit higher. It’s as impressive as it is obnoxious and aggravating.
"We always want more. We think of new things to do, to create for each other, to want for ourselves. It's like a relative game. People are very focused on how they're doing relative to other people," the CEO said.
they had us in the first half. not gonna lie~
~~People~~ billionaires are very focused on how they're doing relative to other ~~people~~ billionaires.
What's that? The essential promise of AI that people cared about (real people, not rich assholes) was a lie the whole time? I'm shocked! Shocked I say!
Fuck whatever Scam Crapman says
Bro read about bullshit jobs and thought it sounds like winning formula
I hate being busy.
Yet more evidence I am not human.
The only people I know who are keen on going to work have been doing 40 hour weeks for decades. It's not enjoyment, it's indoctrination. Enjoying being busy is in no way equivalent to enjoying sitting in a office hearing Janet say "Someone has a case of the Mondays!".
I think this is true to an extent. It's why I don't give much Creedence to the "no one would work under communism" rhetoric.
That being said, there's a difference between keeping busy with hobbies and building stuff for myself or to eventually sell, and making my employer money.
capitalists gonna capitalist. news at 10.