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dasnihil t1_issqe6q wrote

Reply to comment by AdditionalPizza in Will OpenAI's improved Codex put programmers on the chopping block? by AdditionalPizza

to double their output of pumping out more projects. I'm a programmer and if AI automates most of my routine things, I'll just be capable of handling more things now. and that's always good for the company.

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AdditionalPizza OP t1_issvfvh wrote

Yes but from the company's financial angle, if they can get the same output as today, for half the cost, that's just as much of an option as twice the output at the same cost.

Obviously it isn't that simple of course. But the reasoning can be applied to any ratio. The company might want to keep production levels the same and invest the money elsewhere.

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dasnihil t1_istdaln wrote

i don't know of any non-greedy company that would like to keep the same output they have today. but good point of investing the money elsewhere. anyway, who cares man. i don't even care enough about singularity, it's one of the human constructs like many other. it would be nice to live with a universal income/housing provided though. that's the only thing i care about till i die. after that a zillion more ppl will come to earth, humanity might engineer sentience and move on from our biological body, nuclear fusion will slingshot conscious beings into space, what a tourism industry that would be. no harm from radiation, no need for oxygen.. anyway, that's what i see humanity getting into in maybe 200 years from now.

the only benefit i see that people living today "might" get is a basic income to support bare minimum living, that too in a decade if not two.

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