HACKER Q&A
📣 keepamovin

AI never gets flustered, will that make us better as people or worse?


No matter the demands you throw at it, the interleaving tasks - in my experience - it never stops to say - "hey, whoa there, just can you --- can you just WAIT a goddamn minute, puh-leaze!" or whatever. It just powers right on.

Also, if you lose your temper at it, it just powers right on, too.

I'm not sure yet whether this aspect of AI will be a good or a bad. Will it make us into intolerable colleagues and friends with unrealistic expectations? Or will it lead by example and show us a way to disengage from conflict and proceed without provocation?

  👤 beardyw Accepted Answer ✓
Hopefully we will continue to remember we are humans and behave that way. Otherwise we are obsolete.
👤 throwawaysleep
I lean towards the latter.

I am personally much less tolerant of human personality differences because LLMs mean that if the other person is mostly providing additional capacity, I no longer need the other person.

At one of my jobs, nobody wants to bother onboarding the new people as LLMs make it easier to just do their work rather than deal with a confused new person.