Professional at work
@stux That truck would be in flames by the end of the video if I tried that.
@stux That’s beautiful. I could watch stuff like that all day.
@Ronnie mesmerizing huh 🤤 \
@stux People may hate on Meta for their prying ways but that kind of content is basically my whole Instagram.
@stux I want to hire that person to do my taxes.
@zeitverschreib @stux I would hire that person to perform my appendectomy!
@stux If Da Vinci were alive today, this would be his medium.

@stux you see a “professional at work”, I see a 5-person team losing a day’s work to 1 person and a machine

(I’m joking. But I genuinely find it interesting and funny how attitudes towards this kinda thing change over time)

@witewulf @stux
Funny joke.
But I see 1 person who can do more than 5 people. And the other 4 also have this skill, making human progress go even faster, increasing the quality of life for us all.
@Sector9 @witewulf @stux I see one person who (like everyone) should have a 5 hour work week, because we have the capability not to need everybody working 40-60 hours a week doing bullshit. We don't have to make up more stuff to do. Just meet our needs more efficiently, mostly with machines, then fucking STOP.
@dalias @Sector9 @stux that’s an interesting counterpoint to the arguments against LLMs and the like doing peoples’ work
@witewulf @Sector9 @stux It's not a counterpoint to that. LLMs don't do people's work. They magnify the bullshit level of bullshit jobs that aren't actual work, but primarily, help techbros commit securities fraud.
@witewulf @Sector9 @stux Actual computing technology that reduces the need for human labor is the complete opposite of LLM bs. It's not stochastic imitation of humans but precision industrial control systems type stuff with well founded physical and mathematical models behind it.

@dalias @Sector9 @stux so you'd be happy if 80% (I'm assuming a 40hr work week) of your work (and pay) was taken away because a machine (regardless of it's perceived ability) was doing it?

Or are you saying that 80% of the work you do is pointless and you shouldn’t be doing it (and being paid for it) in the first place?

@witewulf @Sector9 @stux I'm fortunate enough to be able to survive, with varying degrees of comfort that aren't great, without doing the bullshit stuff. I'm saying well over 80% of "work" done, as a whole, is bullshit, largely in the form of maintaining systems to account for and police who's allowed to benefit from the actual work that's done.
@witewulf @dalias @Sector9 @stux wages could be increased to allow people to work reduced time and still make a living wage. In theory this is what technological advances should be doing whenever they improve productivity. In practice historically improvements in automation increase or hold steady working hours because its viewed as a way to double profits instead of reducing work hours.

@witewulf
Just make sure people don't starve and get homeless when that happens and it will be fine - because we are not mindless robots programmed with one skill. We can develop and learn new things. Skills may become obsolete, people don't.

So the problem is not whether skills are automated or not, but if people in society are provided for and have the space to develop and adapt - and if they can't still be supported.
@dalias @Sector9 @stux

@stux Awesome. If that were my job I'd be out of bed every morning like a shot.
@stux I want to be a digger driver when I grow up
@stux I could watch his person work all day.
@stux
I will never not be impressed by excavator operators.
@stux the operator has a light touch and fantastic hoe skills
@stux @valen1 Amazing. I could watch this stuff all day.

@stux

A joy to watch!

Amazing!

@stux This is artistry. Wish I could show this to my dad, who taught me as a boy to drive a small excavator.
@stux ...instead, I showed his grandson.
@stux Fantastic. I was waiting for them to roll the sod back on... in place.
@stux so satisfying to watch!
@stux so elegant! Thoroughly impressed!!
@stux So satisfying! Love to see someone so talented at work, (almost) no matter what it is is.

@stux anyone else hearing

"I am a dwarf, and I'm digging a hole
Diggy diggy hole, diggy diggy hole
I am a dwarf, and I'm digging a hole
Diggy diggy hole, digging a hole"

@stux Never thought I would appreciate something like this, but wow, that is some serious precision
@stux Wow! That's seriously impressive skills!
@stux that person probably goes home and cooks dinner without getting out of their digger 😅
@stux
That operator has skills. That was a joy to watch.

@stux

WOW!! An artisan at work! 8- O

I find the preparation & layout impressive! Using the protection panels *prior* to digging and using a nearby space to place the various tool-heads, which go *back* to their respective *spots* !!

The operator has a deft hand using the various tool-heads *and* the pincer claws!

I particularly like the diamond pattern for compacting soil around the access cover!

Thanks for sharing!

8- D

@stux my favourite bit is the nudges on the panels in the stack when moved. Also, the sweeping up of soil on the far side of the path at the end.
Yes, technically impressive but a real focus to doing it with an amazing attention to detail impresses me the most.
@stux the operator owes me a new ice cream cone as mine melted as I sat enthralled watching

@stux WOW. How does it change tools like that?

Is that a BRUSH???

@stux absolutely mesmerizing
@stux I wish my kids would put their toys away at the end like that!
@stux , impressive.
What actually is it?
(Storm water access, drainage hole? Is that close to a building?)

@stux

Wow! I'm about blown away! Thank you for sharing that with us!

@stux
Holy shit, that's not an operator, that's a goddamn wizard
@stux I'm reminded of a video of a crow stacking cups by size for a treat.
I bet you could train it to run the backhoe!
@stux holy shit that was satisfying

@stux

w(°o°)w

Worth watch till the end! \(°o°)/

@stux

Maybe I'd clean my room more often if I had a broom like that...