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The people saying that jobs will all go away because of technology have been wrong every single year, up to this year as well.

The burden of proof seems like it's actually on you to show why this current tech boom is any different from previous ones.

As to the answer to your question, well just look at what people are doing at their jobs today. Those are what replaced jobs from 2 years ago.

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> The burden of proof seems like it's actually on you to show why this current tech boom is any different from previous ones.

In past tech advances, there was always a long list of things that could not be automated by a machine.

For some visions of "AI", almost by definition there is nothing left in that list.

(Except some things, of course, where people want to interact with a human).

>For some visions of "AI", almost by definition there is nothing left in that list.

>(Except some things, of course, where people want to interact with a human).

And, of course, the things that the person holding the vision thinks they personally will still be doing. ;)

OP already answered why this time is different. Previous technology has never reduced the scarcity of general intelligence, which has been the exclusive domain of humans.

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