Found it! It’s Marcus Brigstocke
…errrrr…allow me to disagree…it will not happen…it IS happening right as we speak…
ask any bank, any insurance company how many people they could lay off right now, if there would be no laws to hold them back…
and in the meantime, tell any person that drives/operates any vehicle or machine, there’s no need at all to worry…that they’re still be needed at least 'til 2031…so don’t u worry, u gonna be fine…
tell it to all actors, models and their casting agencies, that at least 70% of their usual job offers will just vanish next year…
tell it to all video and graphic companies, from the smallest, all the way to the big ones, that modern times will have digested 90% of all their competitors around 2027…
after they made their last big profits in deepfaking all sorts opinionleaders, all telling the world to calm the f##k down, since it will take a looooooong time until human workforce is not needed any longer…
and hell yeah, totally right…humans will always be needed…just not that many…ooops…let’s see what we can do about it…time will tell…and hey, time is relative…as we all learned just yesterday…
but i better gonna discuss all this with my digital personal assistent in my private virtual echo chamber, next x mas eve…
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It is of course already happening but the process won’t be as fast as some tech wankers in the Silicon Valley make it out to be. We are talking about decades until average people can just live in an automated utopia without having to work. If that ever happens.
We are both speculating here. We don’t know really.
As I’m sure you know, my point was mainly that endless amounts of idle time doesn’t automatically benefit creativity, let alone bring happiness or meaning for people.
…people need purpose…that much is for sure…
and that utopia, where everybody can just do what gives them their upmost and very own purpose and live in peace and harmony is indeed, far far away…never the less, it’s on it’s way…after quite some dystopian downfalls to come before that…
and those “tech wankers” ur talking about, can’t shake off the feeling, they can’t wait to see, how it all falls apart…
since many of them are well prepared for that scenario…
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FYI: My kids grew up with all this too! It’s all the same, just different times!
…oh, not one day without me feeling sorry for my son, that his generation is growing into way more troubled times…same, same, yes…but tooootallly different with everything, everywhere all at once in flawless realtime action…his kids will be like almost a new species…
I don’t know man, kinda feel like that’s what my grandfather said 40 years ago! It’s all good!
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…yeah…we just don’t learn from history and it’s same old patterns…so we’re all doomed to repeat it…
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The “revolution” is about disjointing the markets even further from making actual products over mass marketing the Emperor’s New Clothes. The plans are just unlimited growth without actual consumers, none of these plans are about interacting with reality over construction.
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That seems likely.
Agreed, I think achievement systems might be a fun way for newcomers to explore their instruments.
“Unlockables” seem like a possibility, maybe we will be adding features to our devices through an RPG-like skill tree. Everyone’s device would be specialized in a different way. Wouldn’t that irritate some people!
Another grim possibility: Loot Crate style sample packs. Sample providers could sell randomized packs filled with unique samples and allow users to trade. Using the Splice app CoSo reminded me of opening a loot crate.
@Jeanne
Then you may have missed Inscryption’s amazing soundtrack
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@Strutter Altman and similar LessWrong-aligned “Altruist” CEOs are really more in the shamanic reality construction biz, more even the douchenozzles who created thousands of nonsense Spotify tracks so they could send bots over to “listen” for royalties. Alongside search engine optimization blackhats finding their AI content sludge savior when Google is spending more time handing them tools than screening out generative results…
If there was an infinite time for development that’d be fun.
In the meantime honestly I would pay for lessons where I do a thing to learn features in whatever synth.
I don’t need lessons in creativity, but ways to conceptualize programming and performance workflows are invaluable to me.
the day a machine tells me “parameter slide achievement unlocked” will be a tragic/joyous day.
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We’re still living in the stone age of computing. Games, as well as synths, might become so advanced they self evolve their functionality to meet your specific needs. No waiting around for the next update, hoping they’ll cover your wishes. Or possibly something even crazier.