So this issue keeps bothering me, especially in regards to tech encroachment on typically "human" fields like the arts. Yet apparently, there are programs that can write novels, compose and play music, and do visual arts mostly independently. What now, then? Computers do literally everything better than humans, so what's the use of existing? We've made, or are about to make ourselves obsolete.

It's not even a singularity issue - this is tech that exists now, is in use right now, but almost no one would call it self-aware.

I guess I find myself getting rather nihilistic about work, and less so about living. How pointless it all seems. Any job I get will soon be outdone by a program and some touchscreens, even my more personal, meaningful aspects are worthless and replicable (superiorly too). Why bother? I wrote a question on another site about it; the sheer ephemerality of human worth is too painful, and it's not even due to some sentient AI like people always thought. We have something like 30-50 years before even intellectual and creative jobs get ceded to machines that do them better:

https://www.quora.com/unanswered/Wha...etely-obsolete

Before anyone talks about relationships, I've given up on those outside of fantasy. And even so, we'll probably have sexbots and virtual caregivers for that. Guess I could get one if I'm still around.