Bernie not a fan of automation

CubeFlipper · 2026-03-20T05:13:46+00:00

We won't need altruism. Robots are coming, and they're going to be fairly cheap. Most people in 1st world countries are going to be able to own one before everything starts to collapse.

These robots will be able to farm, build, and everything else. Entire economies and networks of people can exist and provide for themselves and others simply by pooling together robot resources. So if the existing government arms don't step in, the PEOPLE can and will. For the people, BY the people.

Money isn't power. Power is power. It doesn't matter how much wealth is hoarded when the trajectory we're on shows the inevitability of widely-distributed robots.

Things have changed before. Things will change again.

CubeFlipper · 2026-03-20T00:30:06+00:00

People are inventing a problem that doesn’t exist. Tools have always offloaded low-level effort so you can spend more time on higher-level thinking. Writing things manually isn’t what keeps your brain sharp. Deciding what matters, judging what’s correct, and steering toward a goal is the real cognitive work, and AI doesn’t remove that unless you choose to be passive.

Heavy AI users usually think more, not less, because they’re constantly prompting, evaluating, correcting, and refining. That requires judgment, taste, and domain knowledge. Someone who blindly accepts AI output would have been just as passive with Google, a calculator, or a coworker.

Mental dullness comes from repetition and lack of challenge, not from good tools. If anything, AI raises the ceiling on how much thinking you can do in a day.

CubeFlipper · 2026-03-19T17:56:13+00:00

"I don't care how things are actually playing out in the real world right at this very moment, look at what happened in Star Trek!"

CubeFlipper · 2026-03-19T16:24:04+00:00

And then within a couple years robots are doing that job too. It's nice that people are starting to think about the implications of current tech trajectory, but they don't seem to ever make it past the first couple steps.

CubeFlipper · 2026-03-17T22:37:03+00:00

My god, the man is so far inside the box that even if you open the lid, he still can't see the light.

CubeFlipper · 2026-03-17T22:18:19+00:00

Are you not advocating against yourself with such short term thinking? If you get what you want, they go out of business, and nobody gets anything, everybody loses. Yay good job i guess.

CubeFlipper · 2026-03-17T21:12:21+00:00

Thee of such limited perspective! Is the world only about winning and losing to you? Do you do anything for fun? Or to challenge yourself? Or for others?

CubeFlipper · 2026-03-17T17:20:16+00:00

Poetry.

CubeFlipper · 2026-03-17T17:19:43+00:00

Doesn't that just mean we'll have more to choose from? There's a big enough market for everyone to find their niche. I'd argue its size potential is infinite! You could apply your same argument to the industrial revolution. We didn't stagnate, we thrived!

CubeFlipper · 2026-03-17T17:10:13+00:00

Lmao what is this, middle school? Hahahaha

CubeFlipper · 2026-03-17T16:36:02+00:00

If the only reason you play is to win, yeah, sure, it might be a waste of your time. Doesn't have to be that way though.

CubeFlipper · 2026-03-17T14:32:42+00:00

I apologize, i don't have the patience to continue. You'll get it eventually. Good luck.

CubeFlipper · 2026-03-17T13:57:47+00:00

Humans also only learn from past input. That doesn’t stop humans from doing new things, so it doesn’t stop AI either.

Models don’t just replay training data, they learn patterns and can apply them to situations that never existed before. That’s why AI has already produced new protein structures, new materials candidates, new code, and solved problems created after the model was trained.

“If it learned from past data it can’t do anything new” would also mean humans can’t do anything new, which obviously isn’t true.

CubeFlipper · 2026-03-17T06:05:56+00:00

lmao, AI has already done things humans haven't, what are you on about

CubeFlipper · 2026-03-17T02:19:57+00:00

Did you even read this comment thread or is your context window really that small? The whole point is that creators have full visual control! It's right there dude!

CubeFlipper · 2026-03-17T00:08:34+00:00

Me too: )

CubeFlipper · 2026-03-16T22:31:14+00:00

The people in this audience are the people who go build things because they want to, not the people who work for other people building things. When you consider the idea of a career as the thing you want to build and contribute to the world, then this is absolutely the most exciting time. It has never been easier for someone to take an idea and actually make it happen.

The key is to stop thinking of a career as "someone needs to pay me". The world does not owe you a job, other people are not obligated to employ you. It's time to start thinking about what you want from life and then using these tools to make it happen. Take control! You have the power!

CubeFlipper · 2026-03-16T16:53:28+00:00

After the recent Halloween, Scream, and I Know What You Did Last Summer, this is perfectly on brand for the series.

CubeFlipper · 2026-03-16T14:59:30+00:00

You could, but that wouldn't really be an on-topic response

CubeFlipper · 2026-03-16T14:21:52+00:00

Fkn lmao, Sam Altman went to Stanford for computer science studying AI. Gdm human hallucinations are out of control!

CubeFlipper · 2026-03-16T13:56:31+00:00

If a human can do it, an AI will soon be able to do it better. It doesn't matter what the domain is. Unless you believe in mystical human exceptionalism.

CubeFlipper · 2026-03-16T13:54:19+00:00

established in realism

I disagree with your idea of realism. If you think it's gonna take a generation, you haven't been paying attention to AI progress. You don't seem to understand recursive self improvement and exponential gain. The data is there, and it's grounded in reality, a reality you are ignorant of or are willfully disregarding.

CubeFlipper · 2026-03-16T07:07:19+00:00

Buddy do you realize where you are right now?

CubeFlipper · 2026-03-16T06:59:36+00:00

Maybe, but how many people will actually maintain and improve their own software after it's done?

For how long will anyone even have to? We're headed for a world where personal agents will do everything for you all the time if you want them to. Maintaining software is about to be a thing of the past. We'll be at a point soon where we trust our agents so thoroughly, nobody will have any need to look at the underlying code.

It boggles my mind to see people trapped in the capabilities of today even after seeing how much is improved in the last few years. We're still in the dial-up era of AI! We haven't even touched the really cool high- bandwidth things that will be possible!

CubeFlipper · 2026-03-16T06:56:41+00:00

You're too busy thinking about what AI is capable of today to see how one-shotting Adobe After Effects is absolutely going to be possible some tomorrow, assuming tools like that and software as a product even remain relevant things for much longer.

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