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by lwhi 1176 days ago
I think ChatGPT is going to remove the value from a lot of roles and tasks.

If it can be done by ChatGPT .. there's no point in the ritual; we'll most likely end up scrapping it.

No cover letters. No marketing fluff. No library photography. Less hiring. Less jobs.

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It will be interesting to see how ChatGPT interacts with BS jobs. Could go a lot of ways. One interesting scenario is if humans to finally accept that if you have a big population in a technologically advanced society, the demand for human labor is going to drop, while the supply increases. The only real jobs are those that require rare talent, on a power law dist. The best they can do is no negative contribution. NPCs just live, reproduce, and then see if their kids can do better. In general, this process will continue until ALL humans have BS jobs, or no jobs. So it's good to deal with it now.

Personally, I like the UBI idea.

Seems to me that plumbing would be one job that will very difficult to automate. Might be possible some day but it's going to be very tough to do. So if you want a job that probably won't be automated in your lifetime that would be one to consider.
Cutting hair .. I think this is probably the one.
So many jobs just exist to make money.

I'm praying that humans have the ability to think more about meaningful purpose.