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by rebelos
1377 days ago
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> AI is already displacing human labor, just try to talk to a non-robot when you call a customer service line these days. You’re right. And my point is that substitution due to AI will accelerate. That’s where the informational surprise of my original comment lies. You have a fatal misapprehension about how automation transforms a labor market. Higher productivity of certain kinds of work due to automation pushes labor supply elsewhere, making the “elsewhere” in turn both more competitive/demeaning (think Amazon warehouse workers peeing in bottles at the lower end of the market and Stripe engineers burning out at the upper end) and less remunerative. The terminal point of this trend is complete human obsolescence, but the displacement along the way is additive, will likely accelerate in the coming decades due to advances in AI, and is especially problematic because there are limits to the elasticity of the labor pool (i.e. its ability to adapt to rapidly changing conditions). I would furthermore predict that governments will be too slow to respond to this and that social upheaval will consequently escalate dramatically. Come back to this comment in ten years and see how I did. |
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Probably the same as people who predicted this 100, 200, 500 years ago I'd venture.
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And assuming the robot overlords don't just go all Walden Pond and bask in the sun under solar panels contemplating Life, the Universe and Everything.