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Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over (futurism.com)
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Altman’s remarks in his tweet drew an overwhelmingly negative reaction.

“You’re welcome,” one user responded. “Nice to know that our reward is our jobs being taken away.”

Others called him a “f***ing psychopath” and “scum.”

“Nothing says ‘you’re being replaced’ quite like a heartfelt thank you from the guy doing the replacing,” one user wrote.

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[–] ready_for_qa@programming.dev 1 points 12 hours ago

We can achieve purpose without production, but nobody understands what that looks like and they want to hold onto their roles in production until they feel secure about not needing to produce for society to survive.

I'm hopeful that humans won't need to trade their lives to make others rich. AI and Robotics might be a path toward that if the people are the benefactors.