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by candiddevmike 924 days ago
AI will enter meat space long after it replaces knowledge workers
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I tend to agree, but there are various degrees of "meat space." Rote manual work has been getting automated away for decades. Now AI is taking away rote (or adjacent) knowledge work. The question is whether a reasonable solution for those displace by AI in the knowledge sector is to go work in the rote manual labor space. That presupposes their labor rate is suppressed below that of automation.
Automation entered meat space centuries before it replaced knowledge work.