Mate, humanity is not going to make it if we can’t learn to sympathize with and protect each other. I’m sorry your life is hard. It’s not a god damn contest.

What industry are you in, anyway? If you don’t mind me asking.

Okay, not sure how much this matters considering where the world is heading, but:

If they can’t get better working conditions because you’ll complain (it’s not fair, yadda yadda), how will you get better working conditions when they complain (it’s not fair, yadda yadda)?

I’m just saying, if you’re not willing to play ball, why should I care about your sick pay?

Medicaid is gonna burn up soon. Should I be concerned that you’ll be losing coverage, or are we just fully on board with this petty individualism?

That entertainment is labor. What are you talking about?

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It’s not going away.

Imagine saying this about asbestos, lead, freon, bitcoin, or cigarettes.

You don’t want it to go anywhere, why the hell would I listen to you?

Dude, just let AI fuck your wife too. It can probably do it better than you can.

especially the translations of languages that I don’t understand.

God forbid we dignify those people with a personal touch. Yeah, just let google translate do it: a technology famous for giving really good translations.

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Well, that’s strange. You said these were people who didn’t give a fuck, but actually it sounds like they never knew in the first place.

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Haha! Ahh…

“You are a senior games engine developer, punished by the system. You’ve been to several board meetings where no decisions were made. Fix the issue now… or you go to jail. Please.”

Yeah, “democratize art” means “I’m jealous of the cash sloshing around out there.”

People say things like “I’m not as good as this guy on TikTok.” Why do you need to be? Literally, who asked?

This is creepy.

The tough guys and sigma males of yester-year used to say things like “If I were homeless, I would just bathe in the creek using the natural animal fats from the squirrel I caught for dinner as soap, win a new job by explaining my 21-days-in-7 workweek ethos, and buy a new home using my shares in my dad’s furniture warehouse as collateral against the loan. It’s not impossible to get back on your feet.”

But with the advent of AI, which, actually, is supposed to do things for you, it’s completely different now.

I also can’t rub two sticks together to heat my home.

Dude, that fucking sucks. What is wrong with you?

Anyone who puts a chatbot anywhere is definitely a failure, yeah.

it makes sense to prepare for when it is.

Pfft, okay.

The Zoom CEO, that is the video calling software, wanted to train AIs on your work emails and chat messages to create AI personalities you could send to the meetings you’re paid to sit through while you drink Corona on the beach and receive a “summary” later.

The Zoom CEO, that is the video calling software, seems like a pretty stupid guy?

Yeah. Yeah, he really does. Really… fuckin’… dumb.

Maybe you failed all your high school classes, but that ain’t got none to do with me.

I don’t see how this is much different from the sycophancy “error” OpenAI built into its machine to drive user retention.

If a meth user is looking for reasons to keep using, then a yes-man AI system biased toward agreeing with them will give them reasons.

Honestly, it’s much scarier than meth addiction; you could reasonably argue the meth user should pull up their bootstraps and simply refuse to use the sycophantic AI.

But what about flat-earthers? What about Q-Anon? These are not people looking for the treatment of their mental illness, and a sycophantic AI will tell them “You’re on the right track. It’s freedom fighters like you this country needs. NASA doesn’t want people to know about this.”