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Just the pesky matter of figuring out what humans will do for money, and then we'll be free to run in the meadows like we were meant to


Maybe in the short term, but I think ultimately there are lots of things Humans want (AI or no AI), and that means there's a lot of value to create in the world still. Which means there will still be jobs, just maybe not as much in the churning-out-websites-and-"content"-business.

Don't get me wrong I'm not trying to flippant about the potential for destroyed value here. Many industries (like journalism*) really need to figure this out faster, the advertising model might collapse very quickly when people lose trust that they're reading Human created and vetted material. And there will be broader fallout if all these bonkers AI investments fail to pay off.

[*] Though for journalism specifically it feels like we as a society need to figure out the trust problem, we're rapidly approaching a place of prohibitively-difficult-to-validate-information for things that are too important to get wrong.


Physical crafts and some niche software still. Once robots are given opposable thumbs and large motion models get enough data, there will be nothing left. The tech is already there, just the matter of time. I'm counting on the human race to keep direct funding to software slop and delay that future, but damn China.


I'm interested in computers. What's the point of meadows without computers.




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