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> Im not worried about jobs If you squint, a great many white collar jobs at present consist of receiving directions over a chat channel and delivering a work
by anon7725 4y ago
> Im not worried about jobs
If you squint, a great many white collar jobs at present consist of receiving directions over a chat channel and delivering a work product (an answer to a question, a document, a purchase order, a handled customer case, etc)
We have - today - a way to automate some of this work without any further breakthroughs required, just some engineering around plumbing data around.
From another perspective, even if a human still does this work, that human can be Nx more productive with an LLM assistant (pick your N - it almost doesn’t matter for this argument).
In either of these scenarios we just need substantially fewer white collar workers - enough to cause a spike in the unemployment rate and a destabilized society. It’s changing much faster than our politics can adapt.