[chairmansteve]

Think of AI as an excavator. You know, those machines that dig holes. 70 years ago, those holes would have been dug by 50 men with shovels. Now it's one guy in an excavator. But we don't have mass unemployment. The excavator just creates more work for bricklayers, carpenters etc.

If AI lives up to hype, you could be the excavator driver. Or, the AI will create a ton of upstream and downstream work. There will be no mass unemployment.

[zmgsabst]

Horses never recovered from mechanization.

[chairmansteve]

True, but humans did. Horses were the machine that became obsolete. Just like the guys with shovels.

[postsantum]

They have been promoted to pets. Oh wait..

[euvin]

If AGI is the excavator, why wouldn't it become the driver, bricklayer, and carpenter as well?

[throwaway2037]

Jokes aside, I think building a useful, strong, agile humanoid robot that is affordable for businesses (first), then middle class homes will prove much harder than AGI.

[realce]

Is there any possible technology that could make labor, mastery, or human expirence obsolete?

Are there no limits to this argument? Is it some absolute universal law that all new creations just create increasing economic opportunities?