Post #4157396

2026-07-28 04:01 UTC

“Every time that humanity has traded off its liberty for safety, it’s been a long-term net loss” oh has it now. the spirit of humanity’s been in decline since we’ve eroded workers’ freedom to breathe that good asbestos air and lose their hand in the hand mauling machine, yeah?

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@istewart@awful.systems 2026-07-28 07:15

Observe the power of a rhetorician who recycles singularitarian AND libertarian talking points simultaneously! …damn, it’s not really very impressive. at all.

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@lagrangeinterpolator@awful.systems 2026-07-28 12:48

It gets worse. I found another article about the same podcast: Sam Altman says AI won’t shorten the workweek because humans secretly enjoy being busy. “Technology, for a long time, has been promising people that they’re going to work less and they’re going to have all this leisure,” Altman said. “But somehow we never get the promise of the four-hour workweek at mass scale in society,” he added. “And I don’t expect AI to change that.” “It’s like a relative game. People are very focused on how they’re doing relative to other people,” the CEO said. “I think we’re all going to be much busier than we thought we were supposed to be in a post-superintelligence world. We’re still going to complain about it, but secretly we’re going to be happy,” Altman concluded.

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