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Yeah bro, its been three years. We are just beginning. We will replace the vast majority of professional service workers in 10 years including lawyers as Ai shifts to local and moves away from the cloud.

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If we wipe out the vast majority of white collar jobs in just 10 years, we’re talking complete economic collapse.

No society can possibly absorb that kind of disruption over such a short time.

Also even assuming AI could completely replace lawyers. Lawyers control the legislature. They may not be able to stop your local model from telling you how to do something, but they can stop you from actually doing it without a lawyer.

Even subway train operators in NYC, whose job can be safely automated away, and has been for like 20 years, were able to legally mandate their jobs. I bet lawyers will, too. But the numbers of junior partners, and of paralegals, will dwindle.

But then will we not need more judges and courts?

Correct, which is why we will have the first worldwide revolution as people realize their democracies are fake, they are simply enslaved by capitalists; which is exactly what they told us Commies would do.

The chances of all of those revolutions not touching off world war 3 and decimating infrastructure and trade to the point that we can’t produce the chips to run AI is what now?

Very low. I didn't say French Revolution. Political swing away from capitalism towards socialism.

You said “the fist world wide revolution”, which implies a bit more than a swing toward socialism.

My guess is we have a low chance of peacefully transitioning to socialism if we lose 40% of jobs in under a decade.

Someone is going to take advantage of that the way Hitler did.

I'm glad we have intelligent, mature, uncorrupted politicians who will be able to work together to make sure that this doesn't cause a depression so profound that the entire economy ceases to be viable.

Oh..

Hey. I voted for the other one.

Lawyers, doctors, and accountants aren't just paid to be knowledge workers.

They're paid to accept responsibility for when they fuck up (even when it's not intentional).

Programmers aren't held responsible for their screw-ups. If they were, software wouldn't be the buggy mess it is today.

Until you get firms willing to take on the risk and remove the human element. That is a hell of a war chest for fighting actionable incidents.

That's 70% of the population living in ghettos and the economy collapsing through lack of people with disposable income with extra steps.

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