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> What's happening to the Appalachian coal miners today is going to happen to tech sooner or later. How so? Care to elaborate on this?

• krapp 9y ago
  Basically, I believe the Industrial Revolution started with obsoleting physical labor, because that was simpler, and now efforts to automate will move on to mental and creative labor. Most technical, programming, design and even scientific work will likely become either fully AI driven or else be outsourced to fewer and fewer necessary humans, leading to the same problems of mass layoffs and skills suddenly having little value in an evolving marketplace.
  • davewritescode 9y ago
    AI hasn’t replaced anyone’s job yet, even low skill workers. Speculating the impact of AI on overall employment is slightly speculative. I mean there’s a whole generation of CS graduate students focusing their attention babysitting machine learning algorithms.
    • krapp 9y ago
      >Speculating the impact of AI on overall employment is slightly speculative. ... it's kind of entirely speculative by definition, isn't it?