Thread regarding Humana Inc. layoffs

@bk What you posted is based in logic, which I very much appreciate. But please allow me to expand on that logic a degree further.

Where is the line and who sets the line as to what activities we only care about the results and which we care about the human achievement?

Because I am an engineer, a computer science major, a programmer, an ex-web developer that spent decades learning my science, my craft as it were, to become one of the very best. I pride myself in my work. I can write queries with the very best and I can created automated processes with the very best. I can analyze a particular problem and find an elegant solution that is most pleasing to the requestor. And yet, based on what you just said, all you or others should care about is the result. Furthermore, I personally care about the continued ability to put money in my mouth, pay my bills, care for aging family members and other things that one finds in Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

Now, so this is not just about me. Furthermore, I care and appreciate the human achievement of a customer service representative that worked a good day’s work and left with a smile on their face, picked up their check for a good couple week’s effort and went humble home that they were able to purchase with their human achievement and take care of their three year old son, two year old daughter, and make dinner with the money from their human achievement.

Point is, one’s person may value human achievement more than the next person. So, who plays “god” in making the cutoff line?
Is it you? Do you want that responsibility? Should it be the ultra wealthy? Should it be AI that decides what should be valued as human achievement and what is something we only care about the results?

i think the distinction is betwen activities where we care about the result and activities where we care about the human achievement. if ai diagnoses my illness better, flies a plane more safely or finds fraud faster, i probably care mostly about the result. but nobody watches the olympics just to see how fast something can move, otherwise we'd race motorcycles against sprinters. we watch because a human being is testing the limits of what a human being can do. same with sports, acting, music and much of art. ai may eventually outperform people at many of these things technically, but outperforming humans doesn't automatically replace the reason we valued the activity in the first place.

@OP I am watching football tonight and after reading your post, I was trying to imagine if I was watching 22 robots, 11 robots on each side playing each other. And then I tried imagining an entire season of that. I think I would lose interest fast. And imagining Nascar or Formula One, is a no brainer! That would be a major snooze fest.

I hope we don’t allow AI to replace everything. I really don’t want to turn into one of those humans in the movie Wall-e where I do nothing but eat by means of IV and watch TV all day because the government is giving us all some minimum pay, while AI does all the work.