How sad should I be about ChatGPT? (2022)

how bizarre to read this from the future. also, love your writing style.

it's funny that we all keep bumping up against this persistent confrontation with the ego because of AI. i like reading this because it reminds me, when i spiral down the long tunnel of 'who am i now that a robot does nearly all of my job', that i'm just next in line after millions of others who have had their sacred craft automated. to say nothing of the fact that we are all in the business of automating other people's careers away.

AI will bring about a lot of abject terror, but tbh i think it changing our relationships with meaning and greatness is the one thing we could probably turn into something good. if we come at this the right way, we have a chance to all become monk-like lol. we could learn to be content with a strictly personal meaning. that would be net good for society. relying on each other for validation has ruined so many things.