I mean honestly, no shit it won’t shorten the work week, because no technological advancement has ever made us less busy. Only more. His reason is wrong and is just a bald faced lie to cover that he thinks it’s a great way to milk out more blood from the stones these places are built on.
Megaloathe
Why don’t we just start with a mandatory 4 day work week and see how many people want to work on Friday.
Fuck man, if AI made it so I didn’t have to work 40 hours a week just to live, you know what I’d be doing?
I’d be keeping busy about as much time per week, sure. But I’d be doing shit I WANT TO DO instead of maximizing Shareholder Value™️. Reading, motorcycling, brewing, baking, hiking…
Living. Not just working.
Unfortunately for us all, LLMs won’t do that and never were designed for it. Instead they’re tools of Fascist oppression, and should be destroyed.
Sam!!! You promised you wouldn’t tell anyone. Oh my gosh, I’m so embarassed everyone knows my secret now. 🤭
Read: His ilk will make most people work 60-72 hour work weeks, at lower pay. Some of them even want to reduce the human population, go figure.
I hate being busy.
Yet more evidence I am not human.
I never feel more useless, isolated, and destroyed emotionally than when I am performing monotonous shitty tasks fixing fuckups that shouldn’t have happened
and it just so happens that that seems to be the type of work that AI leaves behind for real people, so…
Yeah dude, busy playing Metroid and going surfing, not busy completing four hours of unskippable corporate training for the third time this month
It sure is convenient that the business owners are always reporting on their findings that support their business models!
Plantation owner assures us slaves enjoy the whip.
If you don’t like working 50 hours a week until age 80 for a non living wage. It means you have work derangement syndrome. Totally a real thing.
I enjoy being productive. For the kind of work I do - if I’m “actively engaged” more than about 30 hours a week, I get less productive instead of more.
Balance in all things.
“Sam Altman says…”
Who fucking cares?
Here’s the thing, I do love being busy…
Playing with my kid
Cleaning the house
Painting minis
Work busy is so far down the list
There is a thing if you do nothing and didn’t interact with the world at all and work can expose you to different groups of people, that work can be better than never working. But the ideal schedule is like 5 hours twice a week with almost no commute. More than three days and it starts to harm you and drastically reduces what you can do.
We will be working hard to build more data centers so computers can do creative jobs and manage us.
