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0 pointssbarre2mo ago0 comments

You must sure live in a bubble.. Do you think ChatGPT has changed things for the majority of people who live on this planet? It has not.

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bdangubic2mo ago· 2 in thread

perhaps I live in a blue collar bubble but I do not know a single person in my personal and professional circle whose lives haven’t significantly changed with AI. just this week I helped three families setup https://github.com/mimurchison/claude-chief-of-staff because one family set it up. prompts are being shared like bread recipes during C19

sbarreOP2mo ago

I'm sorry I don't think automating your email and calendar is "changing your life significantly".. maybe that's just me.

I'm not denying AI is a great productivity tool, it really is!

But "changing the world" is like... electricity, or clean water, or radio.. things that anyone and everyone can set up and access for themselves.

Not a pay-as-you-go service that you (or most people) can only get from 3 for-profit companies who will only be raising the prices and walling up their gardens as times goes on.

bdangubic2mo ago

I don’t disagree - however I’ll play Devil’s Advocate. It starts this way. When the first iPhone was released we were all like “cool, I can take a picture with my phone and not lug the camera around” and now majority of the population can’t go poop without it.

with AI, today we are automating emails and calendars, tomorrow home schooling our kids and skipping college and next thing you know we are taking pics our poop and uploading to AI to analyze our health :)

sillysaurusx2mo ago· 1 in thread

It's changed them for me and everybody around me, and I live in Lake Saint Louis MO. Almost everyone says "yes" when I ask if they've used ChatGPT. That includes my therapist and a random AT&T rep I was calling to cancel my service.

The majority of people on the planet don't affect the outcome of the future. Professionals do, and that's the group with the most noticeable changes.

You can't possibly believe that ChatGPT didn't change the world, can you? I'm genuinely asking here. If someone can believe this when the outcome is this stark, then it discredits every argument that x YC startup didn't change the world.

sbarreOP2mo ago

Jesus did you re-read what you wrote before posting?

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sbarreOP2mo ago

I'm sorry I don't think automating your email and calendar is "changing your life significantly".. maybe that's just me.

I'm not denying AI is a great productivity tool, it really is!

But "changing the world" is like... electricity, or clean water, or radio.. things that anyone and everyone can set up and access for themselves.

Not a pay-as-you-go service that you (or most people) can only get from 3 for-profit companies who will only be raising the prices and walling up their gardens as times goes on.

bdangubic2mo ago

sillysaurusx2mo ago· 1 in thread

The majority of people on the planet don't affect the outcome of the future. Professionals do, and that's the group with the most noticeable changes.

sbarreOP2mo ago

Jesus did you re-read what you wrote before posting?

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