Ask HN: Will Humans Become Useless?
We are seeing a shift in the emergence of new tools towards humans and agents so that the product can be used by these two. It is likely that the next generation of tools will only be used by agents, and humans will only be consumers, not producers. So what will be human use?
In the ancestral environment, prior to even agriculture, was the “use” of humans merely to hunt and to gather? To reproduce? What is your “use” to your friends and family? What is the “use” in a smile, or a laugh, or tears, that an LLM could possibly take from you?
No, not in our lifetime. Our kids - maybe. But not in our lifetime. Although work-life balance will look different in the next 10-15 years for sure.
The primary use case for humans today is the metabolism of fossil fuels into carbon dioxide, long-chain polymers, pornography, machines for generating pornography, shit, and other environmental contaminants.
Are you suggesting something’s changed?