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That game of telephone is certainly an enormous pain point, and I can imagine a future where I'm out of a job -- but it's extremely hard for me to see them lear
by Jeff_Brown 5y ago
That game of telephone is certainly an enormous pain point, and I can imagine a future where I'm out of a job -- but it's extremely hard for me to see them learning to code.
- zerd 5y agoAnd if what the economists needed to do could be programmed trivially with the help of AI then their job is probably also replaceable by AI.
- Jeff_Brown 5y agoThat would be harder. I shuffled data into a new form; they wrote papers. All I had to understand was what they wanted, and how to get there; they had to understand enough of the world to argue that a given natural experiment showed drug X was an effective treatment for condition Y.