Sam Altman says

Opinion discarded

I do enjoy working a lot

Doesn’t mean I wouldn’t prefer to work shorter weeks for companies that profit from me

Then I can spend more time on my own projects which is more rewarding

He's half right. I enjoy being busy, as long as I'm doing things I want when I want. What my employer wants me to do is rarely on the top of that list.

Yes Sam, we are yearning for the mines, and for billionaires to abuse us even more...

Billionaires secretly enjoy guillotines.

Yes... Doing things we enjoy rather than working.

Plantation owner assures us slaves enjoy the whip.

Why bother talking to guys like Sam? Why print what they say?

He isn't even an AI expert, his own employees have said so. He is just the adman.

Here's the thing, I do love being busy...

Playing with my kid

Cleaning the house

Painting minis

Work busy is so far down the list

Well yeah, i enjoy being busy. It's even kinda necessary for me due to ADHD, if i sit still with nothing to do for too long, days to weeks, early symptoms of depression start to slowly creep in which will get worse over time.

I'd just like to be busy with my interests and hobbies, not damned work. Even though I actually do like my work.

Busy with what

This mfer thinks we don't do shit outside of working hours wtf

The tech bro billionaires have a bright future planned for humanity. When jobs disappear, they’re hoping we all start fighting and killing each other until disasters reduce the global Population. Meanwhile, they will be shacked up in their remote luxury resorts riding out events until there are a few million people left who can then work as their very own serfs

Yeah dude, busy playing Metroid and going surfing, not busy completing four hours of unskippable corporate training for the third time this month

Fuck man, if AI made it so I didn't have to work 40 hours a week just to live, you know what I'd be doing?

I'd be keeping busy about as much time per week, sure. But I'd be doing shit I WANT TO DO instead of maximizing Shareholder Value™️. Reading, motorcycling, brewing, baking, hiking...

Living. Not just working.

Unfortunately for us all, LLMs won't do that and never were designed for it. Instead they're tools of Fascist oppression, and should be destroyed.

"Sam Altman says..."

Who fucking cares?

Weird, I thought I said Sam Altman could go fuck himself after the last awful thing he said, did nobody pass my message on?

It sure is convenient that the business owners are always reporting on their findings that support their business models!

Oh no! My secret love for labor! I sure hope no one tries to reduce my quality of life by reducing my hours/full paycheck!

I never feel more useless, isolated, and destroyed emotionally than when I am performing monotonous shitty tasks fixing fuckups that shouldn't have happened

and it just so happens that that seems to be the type of work that AI leaves behind for real people, so...

Scam Faultman

I enjoy teaching and, provided I was guaranteed my needs and reasonable comforts were provided, would continue to teach for free. I doubt Altman’s talking about passionate people pursuing their passions free from the threat of financial ruin.

"We always want more. We think of new things to do, to create for each other, to want for ourselves. It's like a relative game. People are very focused on how they're doing relative to other people," the CEO said.

they had us in the first half. not gonna lie~

People billionaires are very focused on how they're doing relative to other people billionaires.

Every time I think Altman has maxxed the “I am a complete fucking tool and a garbage human” metric, he manages to set the bar a little bit higher. It’s as impressive as it is obnoxious and aggravating.

Yeah, but like, being busy by doing things we enjoy doing

Yes ... busy doing the stuff we want to do, not busy doing the stuff we have to do for a boss we hate!

Why don't we just start with a mandatory 4 day work week and see how many people want to work on Friday.

The only people I know who are keen on going to work have been doing 40 hour weeks for decades. It's not enjoyment, it's indoctrination. Enjoying being busy is in no way equivalent to enjoying sitting in a office hearing Janet say "Someone has a case of the Mondays!".

last time I checked, Sam Altman was not an authority on humans

Megaloathe

What's that? The essential promise of AI that people cared about (real people, not rich assholes) was a lie the whole time? I'm shocked! Shocked I say!

Bro read about bullshit jobs and thought it sounds like winning formula

I think this is true to an extent. It's why I don't give much Creedence to the "no one would work under communism" rhetoric.

That being said, there's a difference between keeping busy with hobbies and building stuff for myself or to eventually sell, and making my employer money.

Sam!!! You promised you wouldn't tell anyone. Oh my gosh, I'm so embarassed everyone knows my secret now. 🤭

Fuck whatever Scam Crapman says

Sam Altman hasn't worked a day in his life and even that is a bit too much for him.

capitalists gonna capitalist. news at 10.