I’ve started to feel a bit depressed about AI advancement. We’re headed to a world where intelligence matters less, and where we need fewer intelligent people. Especially outside of programming.
That world is one where social skills and status will become more important, relatively. In short, it’s a world where people like me will be less important and less valued.
It’s not AI that is doing that, it’s Twitter.
This is a misparse. Leaving aside any question of whether the things you guys are pointing at are real, or whether you’re analyzing them correctly – you are pointing at completely different things.
OP isn’t talking about “social rat races drown out intelligent/productive behavior,” in the sense that you often talk about it. He’s talking about intelligent/productive work in most materially profitable fields being taken over by bots who can work cheaper (and maybe better?) than “smart” human employees. The idea, I think, is that something like “making money off your writing skills” or “making money off your holistic analysis skills” will be obsolete in the way that being a clerk or a scribe is obsolete now.