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Yes I agree ambitious people obsessed with their empire building aren't going to stop being born. And yes I agree their empires will generate jobs. But they wi
by op03 6y ago
Yes I agree ambitious people obsessed with their empire building aren't going to stop being born. And yes I agree their empires will generate jobs.
But they will be increasingly crappy and mindless as people are used to fill in the gaps that Automation and AI cant.
You can see that playing out in Amazon warehouses as workers try to keep pace with robots and get injured, or in Zuckerbergs content moderation farms as the mods suffer brain damage from what the AI systems miss.
So expect lot of people to say no thanks. And if those people don't find any other purpose expect them to start burning things down. In that context, orgs that provide routes to purpose are doing a good thing.
- scrollaway 6y agoCrappy mindless jobs tend to be the first ones to be automated. The less complexity, the more mindless it is. The less complexity, the easier it is to automate. Unless you think cashier, burger flipper or product labeler is a top-job type thing.
- op03 6y agoNot the reality at all. I work in process automation. There are thousands of issues and bugs in our systems that require mindless human activity to work around. Eg- Where our voice rec models fail we have hundreds of people sitting the whole day listening to boring snippets of context less conversation and correcting it. Most hate that work. Where robots malfunction on the line some guy has to just wheel in a new machine and push 2 button. That's all he does. That's what I mean by ppl being used to fill in the gaps. They do it for a few years and end up having no great qualification after the bugs get fixed so they getoved to the next crappy filler job. There is no great dignity to it or satisfaction. And they end up laughing at Obama's speeches abt reskilling cause they know the reality and end up voting for Trump.