As long as I am improving, these models are able to improve at a faster rate. Of course, I cannot compete with the top researchers at these big labs. So whatever I do will be insignificant.
Just because you aren't on the cutting edge of technological "progress" doesn't mean what you do is insignificant. It doesn't have to be futile to resist. There are good things produced by technology of course, but honestly I'm not ashamed to admit I'm just sick of it and have no interest in the cutting edge anymore. Maybe I'll be a fool 100 years when a few more cycles of tech "disruption" finally solve all material poverty, but I just can't see the world that way anymore.
Solving the problem of how to make enough money to get by is a different question, but it's not a new one. IMO the correlation between highly paid work and meaningful is lucky when you can get it, but nothing to count on. Sometimes compromises need to be made.
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Just because you aren't on the cutting edge of technological "progress" doesn't mean what you do is insignificant. It doesn't have to be futile to resist. There are good things produced by technology of course, but honestly I'm not ashamed to admit I'm just sick of it and have no interest in the cutting edge anymore. Maybe I'll be a fool 100 years when a few more cycles of tech "disruption" finally solve all material poverty, but I just can't see the world that way anymore.
Solving the problem of how to make enough money to get by is a different question, but it's not a new one. IMO the correlation between highly paid work and meaningful is lucky when you can get it, but nothing to count on. Sometimes compromises need to be made.