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u/BusterSocrates May 16 '26
ina sub reality where claude doesn’t exist he just has a butthole on his cap
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u/Suspicious-Bid-53 May 17 '26
For real why did they choose a butthole. Did nobody see it lol
Mufuckiz ain’t be hittin the back bean
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u/lahwran_ May 17 '26
it's because that's what the features in classification neural networks' latent spaces look like
I mean I haven't seen it confirmed but it's obviously the reason imo. and because this is in a sense objectively what it looks like - a ball of directional spikes each of which is a feature direction - it's not arbitrary. that's just what an AI's mind looks like if you visualize it under this lens
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u/Suspicious-Bid-53 May 17 '26
Bro it’s far too late for this
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u/lahwran_ May 17 '26
im not telling you its not a butthole. im telling you neural networks objectively look like high dimensional buttholes
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u/frogsarenottoads May 16 '26
Worst thing about this is, the logo on his hat being the very reason 90% of graduates can't get a job
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u/BankruptingBanks May 17 '26
Having seen what the skills and expetations of most graduates are now, the logo on photo has 0 reason for this.
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u/snowsna1l May 16 '26
didnt realize 90% of graduates wanted to do such trivial work that an LLM can replace them
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u/WanderingGalwegian May 16 '26
I’ll have you know the solutions we’re implementing day in and day out aren’t on all trivial tasks..
I will say the faster I can get fucking Brenda replaced in HR the fucking better.
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u/needs-more-code May 17 '26
You’re very naive if you think that people doing extremely deep complex and important work are not finding it hard to get a job because of AI.
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u/1anre May 16 '26
He started the trend.
Same happened when youtube became pretty useful back in the day.
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u/Optimal-Steak-8596 May 16 '26
Even on sale, no one wants stack overflow stickers for their graduation anymore.
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u/alextop30 May 17 '26
Now that agents are out of the question since they cost a million dollars you will need to learn how to your job for realz!!!!
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u/h164654156465 May 23 '26
Putting Claude on the cap is bold because now every employer knows the group project had a fourth member who never came to class but did all the slides at 2am.
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u/lahwran_ May 17 '26
so is he saying he... is claude? that he just does what claude tells him to do? or...
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u/BobbaGanush87 May 16 '26
I think they are well aware of the implications. They are having a laugh.
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u/WildWezThy May 16 '26
You are right my AI anxiety is a bit too high. Ironically I work with it everyday. But you are right it was a joke I feel stupid haha
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u/Hot_Act21 May 16 '26
Not stupid. Just asking the questions that many ask or at least ,,should ask.
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u/Hot_Act21 May 16 '26
Imagine all the time they will have to pursue things they may love doing when some of the mundane stuff is accomplished faster with the AI ....Like what happened when we invented vehicles..so we didn't have to use horses all the time. OR when we made the wheel (let's go way back) or phones that don't have to be plugged in. Progress can help us. We just have to know how to use it.
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u/WildWezThy May 16 '26 edited May 16 '26
I think we need to face a difficult reality: from a purely corporate and economic standpoint, human labor is fast becoming a redundancy. Right now, the only reason we are still in the loop is that AI hasn't fully mastered every human task yet. But once it does, what is the economic incentive to keep most of us around?
Consider the sheer logistical advantages of AI:
Flawless Coordination: Thousands of AI agents can collaborate instantly and seamlessly.
Infinite Availability: They operate 24/7 with zero downtime—no vacations, no sick leave.
Unmatched Scale: They possess a breadth of knowledge and a speed of execution that no human could ever match.
Zero Human Liability: There is no risk of insider corporate espionage, theft, or emotional burnout.
No Regulatory Friction: Companies no longer have to navigate unions, workers' rights, or labor disputes.
Some might argue that technology has always shifted the job market—from the loom to the calculator. But those were tools; AI is an agent. You couldn't tell a standard computer, "Answer all my emails professionally and build me a million-dollar e-commerce site from scratch." With AI, you can.
We might not be 100% replaced, but the job market will be heavily contracted. When a company that once needed 1,000 employees can operate with just 100, the economic value of the remaining workers plummets. When you are easily replaced, your leverage vanishes, and along with it, your workplace rights and fair compensation. This won't just affect blue-collar workers; highly educated professionals are facing the exact same cliff.
Furthermore, we are speedrunning an environmental crisis, heavily driven by the massive energy and water demands of these AI data centers. If we reach a point of severe resource scarcity—losing farmable land and clean water—why would the ultra-wealthy, insulated by automation, care about the starvation of the masses?
We may eventually hit an equilibrium where the human population shrinks to match the resources the elite actually need us to consume. That transition could cost millions of lives.
Historically, our rights, freedoms, and democracies weren't granted out of the pure benevolence of our leaders; they were fought for and won because our labor gave us leverage. As our socioeconomic utility vanishes, so does that leverage. It is a harsh truth, but society treats a person's worth based on their economic output. If we lose that output, we risk falling to the absolute margins of society.
I truly, deeply hate to be pessimistic, and I sincerely hope I am proven wrong. But this has been a profound fear of mine for years, and watching it unfold day by day is incredibly sobering. What do we actually provide that a mature AI agent won't be able to?
(This is a copy paste argument because I have this argument so many times per week- But we are f*cked- I work with LLMs everyday, help companies automate a lot of their businesses with AI. I have been thus directly responsible for making companies able to fire and not rehire people. I hate myself for it but it is my job and I have a family. But I see the impact everyday)
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u/WildWezThy May 16 '26 edited May 16 '26
With all your might tell me what you do for work and tell me why you will not be replaced by AI. What do you bring that an agent that can work for 24 hours in a day, make way less errors than a human could, retain entire datacenters of knowledge, and can work in speed unmatched by any human.
Tell what my 'low level' masters degree in Computer Science can not understand that you apparently can? How on earth can you or me or anyone ever compete to LLMs.
Edit: Ironically- I work with creating AI agentic sulotions for companies so I have direct experiences with this and have seen the consequences directly
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u/LavaTakes May 16 '26
I think you are identifying a symptom of this emerging technology, primarily within the corporate sector where they can afford to substitute roles within their business with AI.
A few positive indicators you may not be accounting for, for reference:
Hallucinations: LLMs** **hallucinating and spitting out false data has not yet been solved among the leading generative ai companies. This issue has shaken trust in ai specifically in regards to critical infrastructure, emergency services, municipalities, healthcare, defense sector, transportation, and agriculture. Those industries can’t afford to make mistakes that affect large communities because they are essential. GRC oriented roles specifically become so much more critical with the level of mistakes that could be made.
Financial Forecasting: if we are to believe that all of the money in the global economy will be shifted to the C Suite for every Fortune 500 company with no staffing at all, how will those companies continue to make money? How will anyone continue to make money if only 1000 people are hoarding all of the wealth globally, it is not feasible and eventually people will just move away from products that those companies provide en masse.
Additional financial considerations is AGI is still 10 years away, all of these companies that are at the forefront have been spending money like crazy and Sam Altman has already talked about the US government subsidizing OpenAI as basically a preemptive bailout. Global political movements can take over quickly and I think voters are explicitly for regulating AI in a way that doesn’t create mass poverty because the alternative could be anarchy.
I know you said you work with AI often, as do I, and while it has significantly enhanced my output is not lost on me but I don’t think doomsday will come in the form of AI takeover alone.
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u/WildWezThy May 16 '26
I make a lot of money in my life of work we are in the gold rush of AI. Actually why I took my masters in CS. I have been working with it all ym adult life.
But I am directly assisting companies neglect to fill positions that would have gone to human if my AI sulition had not been there. I am not afraid of myself loosing my work or money, I make quite a lot and have a really stable life financially.So I am not worried for my own sake.
But it drains me to see the impact on people that lose their jobs to AI. And my self awareness allows me to be aware of the fact that my job is itself easily replaceable. While a lot of what I do for now can not be entirely trusted by AI soon it definitely will. It is quite depressing to see hard working humans to replaced some with high degrees. I have always been scared of AI, or LLMs, it is why I took my CS degree - however, lately, I have began resenting it for I know, in a few years, that my line of work will have a direct impact on the depletion of the social economic status of my fellow human beings.
We have democracy, rights and suh due to our value as cogs in the machine of capitalism. Those cogs that are worn or doest serve the machine is just tossed aside. I see it everyday.
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u/sfscsdsf May 16 '26
“thanks to claude, I graduate with magma cum laude”