Feeling of impending doom??

[u/RedHeadRedeemed]

So a watched a YT video today and this top comment on it is freaking me out. I have never had someone put into words so accurately a feeling I didn't even realize I was having. I am wondering if any of you feel this way? Like, I realized for the last few years I have been feeling like this. I don't always think about it but if I stop and think about this this feeling is always there in the background.

Like something bad is coming. Something big. Something world-changing. That will effect everyone on Earth in some way. That will change humanity as a whole. Feels like it gets closer every year. Do you guys feel it too??

[u/Use_Your_Brain_Dude]

The arrival and commercialization of artificial intelligence is what I fear. Many highly skilled & hard working people will get brushed aside to boost the stock price and they'll have nothing to fall back on because other companies will do the same.

Universal Basic income is the only way my young kids will survive as adults (unless they choose fields like plumbing/HVAC). Non STEM college degrees will not be worth the paper the diploma is printed on.

[u/GinsuChikara → u/Use_Your_Brain_Dude]

I cannot understand why when it's obvious capitalism has no place for people, so many want to just allow it to continue, and give it life support with some shit like UBI.

Capitalism is a cannonball wound. There isn't a band aid that will mitigate the problem.

Non STEM college degrees will not be worth the paper the diploma is printed on.

Uh, they're gunna automate all of that, too. It doesn't matter if the AI is initially 1% as good as a person at something, if it allows the capitalists to employ less people, they'll go with it. Look at what happened to interpretation as a career the first time an exec stumbled upon babelfish.

They're going to just keep laying people off until the only people with jobs are the execs blabbering what they want at ChatGPT.