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You're doing the Skinner meme.

The graduates were expressing their free speech rights, and they know what they're up against. Schmidt does not care about them at all.

If it feels fake?

Ok, I'm not from US so maybe I'm missing something here. Why exactly does his speech feel fake?

The part where there will be jobs in the future. Not that I think Eric Schmidt or anyone else is responsible. The genie is out of the bottle and you can't put it back in, no individuals or companies or states can.

His former company keeps firing people and saying the very reason for that is AI.

There sure is hope for C-level to juice more and more. People who are about to join work market may not share the positivity.

its fake because they have tried their hardest to hoard all the money to themselves

They don't want hope, they want to doom

I don’t think it’s dooming to realize that these tools are only ever used to extract more of your life faster. When was the last time a technological advancement let us work less? Guys like Eric Schmidt preach that it makes you more productive because they expect more productivity for the same salary. Anyone that falls off the hamster wheel wasn’t worthy.

what hope exactly?

From what I read, he stated that even the coming of computers in the first place threatened many jobs, also many fresh graduates felt probably the same way back then, but everything worked out in the end.

"everything works out in the end"

lol that should fill them with hope and confidence. great speech.

Everything worked out in the end for Eric Schmidt because he rode computers to billionaire status.

It did not always work out so great for the people who were replaced, and the people who were replaced were a much smaller percentage of the workforce than the tech CEOs are claiming will be replaced by AI.

People largely go to college to train for the white collar jobs that tech CEOs are claiming are going to be entirely replaced by LLMs, where's the hope for the people that just spent six figures learning how to do jobs that people like Schmidt are trying their hardest to eliminate?

Everything worked out in the end? Are we living on the same planet?

Those magic new jobs, that are possible only due to LLM existence, should start hiring any day now.

Jokes aside, for a second there might appear a niche for "authentic human work", but that would be dead on arrival, at least considering fate of Etsy - flooded by "handmade" goods few years ago.

They'd like security, jobs, access to progress, and things that the billionaire has hoarded for himself while saying that they can make it if they try really hard even though the ladder is fully pulled up behind him.

Where?

Those AI utopias they proclaim don’t fit with capitalism.

This is the most confusing thing to me. If AI works, capitalism is dead and kept on life support via UBI or dead and replaced by communism.

So why billionaires are pushing it, when it will erase them from existence if it is working.

And no, private army or some bunker on Hawaii is not going to save them

> And no, private army or some bunker on Hawaii is not going to save them

I guess that’s the point where they disagree. Bad for all when they find out the truth

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