Humans on the whole would fare badly if given more leisure (unemployment) by AI. Sure, we'd all like some more time to spend in the garden or go fishing but when that free time stretches out for decades, 90% of people will simply atrophy. Maybe some new paradigm will emerge for people to form communities around but for now I'd imagine most will turn into dumb social media consumers. The sad fact is that most essays and thoughts that school kids have will exist somewhere in a LLM (but better)

As per standard, I haven't read the linked article but I foresee problems with the proposal, namely that a) juniors simply won't get employed, so there won't be anyone for seniors to mentor and b) senior devs won't have free time to mentor anyone when AI has turned dev work into a production line (and execs are trying to squeeze every last drop out of their resources). Much like with manual trades, there has been massive underinvestment in training since companies want skilled personnel without the expense of actually training them

Is there a full house yet? Pretty much every psychedelic and dissociative seems to have been in the papers as reducing symptoms of major depression - perhaps scientists could talk together a bit rather than working in silos?

MS promising the end to white collar work should be seen as doom-mongering. Universities will became obsolete, everyone piles into (limited) blue collar jobs, countries with strong welfare systems lose their taxpayers. And worst of all, kids can't even afford gaming PCs!

The drug is helpful in preventing old guys from falling out of bed

It is beautifully ironic that the technology that promised greater leisure time should now enslave those users at the bleeding edge. I'm sure they're well compensated but this just illustrates the problem being faced - some people will be overworked and overpaid, and other people will be lose their jobs

I don't have much to do with this genre but surely the vast piles of this stuff give away that most of it is written by AI? What baffles me are the page counts - it seems like any novel in this genre needs to run to 600 or more page!

Surely if you want to expend lots of energy exercising processors then the trendy thing this year is in AI rather than crypto? Generating AI slop might not produce measurable impact, like an actual coin would, but company valuations go up directly in proportion to their AI presence

If RAM shortages don't impact the price then tech bros buying up Xboxes for AI datacentres will!

Hawthorne effect? Having someone observe you and participate in a cool trial is probably going to do something for depression, even without the addition of psychedelic drugs

Obviously I'm pretty ignorant here but surely placebo effect is pretty significant in depression, if you're only considering subjective feedback? If you're being given something you're told is LSD and it's only caffeine, you'll still probably have a pretty good time, ask any drug dealer

It's an interesting thought - if generic music and videos can be generated in milliseconds by a prompt, what exactly is the point of storing it? Cull the archives, we're already at the point where we're generating more content in an average day than the entire output of the last millennium!

My boss arrived at work in a brand new Lamborghini. I said âoewow thatâ(TM)s an amazing car.â He said "If you work hard, put all your hours in, and strive for excellence, Iâ(TM)ll get another one next year!â it would be funny if it weren't true

Weirdly, despite all the technological changes in my lifetime, my dad worked 40 hours a week for his lifestyle, I work 40 hours and I've no doubt that the next generation will have to work 40 hours as well. I don't think we'd know what to do with leisure time as a society, but leisure costs money and we might have less in the future

Broadly, immigration is the movement of people to better opportunities. I doubt AI is going to make every country into paradise overnight so until that happen, people will want to move. Especially as climate changes take effect. Immigration from the third world is going to ramp up as areas become uninhabitable