do you?
Valued by my friends and family? Yes, very much so!
Value by society? No, not so much, but it’s mutual.
Yes, outside of social media. I love my job, my friends, family and just try to enjoy my life.
But, then I use social media like Facebook or Instagram and the algorithm is really hardcore pushing the “AI is taking over engineering is dead!!” narrative. As an engineer that makes me feel terrible/not valued, even though I know it’s not true.
I basically just stopped using social media outside of this and reddit.
But, then I use social media like Facebook or Instagram and the algorithm is really hardcore pushing the “AI is taking over engineering is dead!!” narrative.
Ah, thanks. I had no idea what OP was talking about.
As a retired person: no, apart from by other retired people in the village, because we help each other out with our different skill-sets.
We still have a few friends but they are scattered; we meet mostly at funerals.
Politicians think we’re too expensive (healthcare, pensions, etc.) although they’re careful not to be too nasty, as apparently we vote more than other demographics. The fascists think we might vote for them (not a chance).
The young are busy with their own lives as they should be and so we are mostly seen as an inconvenience or, at best, a future inheritance. I’m fine with this: they’ve got it tough and we help where we can.
The AI crowd know we’re too old for that shit (we remember all the bubbles). We don’t buy much stuff either, so the capitalists and advertisers aren’t happy with us. The pub likes us but wishes we’d visit more often. The fund managers are going off us as our pension funds dwindle. I think the lady in the corner shop has a good opinion of us, although she thinks I buy too much beer.
absolutely not. I have been out of work for close to two years. I feel unvalued. I feel like my education and experience is unvalued. I feel my society is saying. You should not contribute. We don’t want it. I feel its saying we do everything in a super automated low effort way but you should distinguish yourself but doing a bunch of manual things to make up for anything our automated systems does not do properly which is kinda everything. You should work very hard to prove your work should be compensated.
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Literally watching a presentation right now where they quoted “Use AI intentionally, not as the only answer”
On the other hand my human knowledge is invalidated because my kpis focus more on how frequently I use ai than on what I do
In my real life, also mostly no. My kids are in college, so they mostly need their bills paid and I rarely see them in person
Wow. Paying your kids’ bills in college is so great if you can manage.
No. I don’t even feel human anymore.
I’d say yes. I worked hard to be “that person” that people like and can trust and they know I’m knowledgeable in a lot of subjects. They can call me to ask questions anytime. They borrow my cars and tools. They dont take advantage of me though. Actually I wish they’d ask for help more often because I have a lot of things and skills to offer.
Mainly I just always wanted to be likeable. I don’t enjoy being mean.
Being actually mean is stressful.
I will flip your question. All this AI none sense has made me value people more.
I value human musicians with passion and new interesting sounds; I value human visual artists and what they add to our graphical landscape I value journalists and just people putting themselves out there to share their honest opinion in a world so overtaken by propaganda and information wars; I value people who are trying to learn and teach new things, that want to do research and make sense of the world. And I value disagreeing and getting mad at people and saying dumb shit and doing dumb shit and realizing i have areas where i need to work on and improve myself. I value humans, and i wont waste my time on AI or LLM’s
I don’t really care if I’m valued, and i don’t care about systems of values, i barely have time to make and experience.
Generally, yes. I spent years of quite a bit of effort to only surround myself with people who treat me as an equal & share my general values. I have to turn my brain off during serving-the-capitalists hours though.
I hope that you don’t have to serve the capitalists as long as you think you need to.
By myself, yes.
Yes
I like a 3 character response. But I want more. Why do you like yourself?
I hate myself, but I perceive that I’m valuable to others. Of course it comes through the chain of thoughts that includes parts such as they are wrong and that I only create the very need I fulfill, but still
Yes, and for some reason I still have trouble believing it.
What makes you feel valued?
…and is that something that can be delivered remotely, through a screen?
I ask this not because I necessarily want or expect a specific answer, but because everyone who reads my comment should stop and spend a few minutes considering what the answer is for them personally.
And then think about what you think the answer might be for other people in your life, and what makes them feel valued.
What can you do, to make that happen more often for yourself, and for others? Personally, I think nothing is quite as rewarding as making someone else feel valued.
Talk to your family. Talk to your friends. They want to hear from you, even if they’re busy.
I must say. Thank you for your reasoned and reasonable response.
I love you for who you are internet stranger. You made my day a little brighter. And I will pass it on. I am in far too frequent contact with all those I love and hold dear. I’ll take your implicit consent and spread the love to them too.
Professionally? No
As a family member or friend? Yes
As a member of society? Barely
What’s the context of your question?
The point of asking a somewhat general question is that you can answer and interpret it how you like and experience responses you wouldn’t expect.
Which is what I got from you. By asking one question.
The mention of AI as an introduction suggests you may have a specific context in mind. If the question is so general, you don’t need to give irrelevant information. Asking “do you feel valued?” is enough, and the absence of context becomes obvious.
Then you answered incorrectly. Maybe you should have focused your response on that rather than ranting about OP post.
