The thing is I think that I didn’t make any conscious decision to hop on AI, it’s just that it’s quite addictive and my nerd ADHD took over. But we are nerds, we’re often naturally inclined to be early adopters. Others are naturally hesitant of new tech and suspicious of changes to their workflows.
Also there’s an unusually high downside potential to AI, so I don’t even think that hesitancy is necessarily unwarranted. The new slop economy, the “they’re coming for our jobs” effect, “mechahitler”, Palantir, possible extinction-level rogue AI events…
History will attend to itself, as will the discourse. In the meantime I feel that it’s incumbent on us as nerds to try to do AI right, because there are definitely bad actors out there trying to do it wrong.
lewdwig•1h ago
Also there’s an unusually high downside potential to AI, so I don’t even think that hesitancy is necessarily unwarranted. The new slop economy, the “they’re coming for our jobs” effect, “mechahitler”, Palantir, possible extinction-level rogue AI events…
History will attend to itself, as will the discourse. In the meantime I feel that it’s incumbent on us as nerds to try to do AI right, because there are definitely bad actors out there trying to do it wrong.