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   David A. Joyner (davidjoyner@fediscience.org)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Mar-2023 13:18:56 JST David A. Joyner

   I got to chat with @VICENews about GPT-4: the quote toward the end about the pursuit of hobbies for their inherent fulfillment rather than the usefulness of the product is one of the most important ideas I find missing from most discourse on AI.

   https://www.vice.com/en/article/jg5xmp/startups-are-already-using-gpt-4-to-spend-less-on-human-coders

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Mar-2023 13:18:55 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @davidjoyner does that extend to programmers?

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     David A. Joyner (davidjoyner@fediscience.org)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Mar-2023 21:36:09 JST David A. Joyner

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     • Evan Prodromou

     @evan I feel like those are orthogonal questions—that's more about the future of work itself. But there's also a thread in the conversation about AI's abilities that almost questions what it means to be human, and I feel like it connects too strongly to this modern tendency to view hobbies and activities only in terms of their extrinsic payoff rather than the intrinsic value.

     Too much attention is paid to whether people are good at some task rather than whether they are fulfilled by it.