I got into tech because I fell in love with the idea that software could give people superpowers (like Richard Pryor beating Superman in Superman 3) which is why a new general of startups pitching AI as a way to replace people rubs me the wrong way. It’s a dark dream.
@Carnage4Life Progress has always involved automating away a class of jobs, and creating a _new_ set of jobs to address more complex opportunities. That's the very nature of how we've advanced humanity. This is just a continuation of that.
@Carnage4Life It should create abundance, but the transition will be challenging
@Carnage4Life What do you think of humanoid startups that openly talk about disrupting the $50T human labor market?
@Carnage4Life Depends what they’re replacing them to do
AI is probably going to be the toughest sell in history. I can't think of one technology that ever had 50 years of anxiety, fear and worry around it before it ever even came about. Undoing and assuaging half a century of that in this new upside down world is going be .. unimaginably difficult.
@Carnage4Life Good point. My father got started on his career also via Superman comics, specifically Superman's ability to see glass in the brain (something impossible with x-ray at the time) He went on to develop the world's first accurate surgical navigator among other accolades.
@Carnage4Life You can still code. No one is taking this away.
@Carnage4Life It’s lack of vision. If founders only see replacing what is, rather than building what could be, they lack imagination.