This feels like the AI’s iPhone moment.
I am scared for all people working service jobs.
I am scared for all people working service jobs.
I’m not scared for service workers due to ai but you should see how low minimum wage is in America relative to rents if you want to be scared.
Probably could stop there.
Yeah that’s probably truest.
But I’m more scared for some than others short term.
I’m less immediately scared for anyone doing work that interacts with the physical world.
Weird how it turned out the robotics was harder than the thinking
AI has flipped on its head much of what we thought early AI would be like with creativity being one of its most successful targets.
I suspect the surprises will only continue to be, lets say, more surprising.
I've actually written a lot about that recently as well. FYI https://dakara.substack.com/p/ai-and-the-end-to-all-things
Why? Because they're no longer doomed to eke out a meaningless existence doing a robot's job badly?
There has been, and will be, no point in time at which the optimal strategy is "Stop" or "Wait" or "What about my job?"
There is no way to a post-scarcity economy, the phrase is a contradiction, and scarcity is an inescapable consequence of human desire.
There is scarcity of information and media of the kind people find valuable. If there is a sense in which the broader statement is true, it is irrelevant for that reason.
But that’s unavoidable really because it’s based on perception - There will always be a top 10% of something and a bottom 90%.
This isn’t the same with thinking. Just look at how startups can have millions of customers and 20 employees.
Also last time we had mental labour to fall back on. This time we don’t.
It’s different this time.
Also most western countries which have given up on manufacturing are going to be worse hit because their jobs are more easily replaced.
We don't know that.
We know that the exact same objections have been raised before, and have always, without a single exception, proven to be invalid in the long run.
imagine all the surface area in the solar system. I bet there's got to be at least 100 completely unexpected things lying around that would transform our understanding.