I was amused by “AI” when it took off in the winter of 2022-2023. My friends and I took turns generating comedic images, probing our imagination for the most incongruous prompts to see what humor could manifest. More than one year later, I’ve developed a distaste for generative technology, but more than that a sense of foreboding. I doubt that I have any new opinions here but I find it worth writing down anyway.

…and the jobs that benefit the most people pay the least. We’re incentivized to benefit the fewest people and wonder why resources are concentrated into the fewest hands. 2024-09-06: I found this expressed in almost the exact same way in a documentary about burnout. One of the most pernicious things about our current economic system is that the more your work benefits others in an obvious and immediate sense, the more your work has a clear and undeniable beneficial effect on other human beings, the less you are likely to get paid for it.