I'm with you, I don't see where everyone will go. We've got a few sinks or de facto jobs programs (military; healthcare system, in the US) for "excess" workers,

I'm with you, I don't see where everyone will go. We've got a few sinks or de facto jobs programs (military; healthcare system, in the US) for "excess" workers, but I don't know how any of those can expand enough to absorb a shock of the sort that LLMs and related tech may soon usher in—especially when those programs or semi-deliberate inefficiencies aren't actually sold as being for that purpose, how much waste will we collectively tolerate? UBI definitely seems like a more-honest approach, and probably healthier all around. [EDIT] Just after posting this I had a mini-nightmare about how LLMs might enable a much, much higher volume of lawsuit activity with the same number of highly-skilled workers, driving an expansion of low-skilled ancillary jobs in that sector, at the cost of an absolutely huge drag on the overall economy and probably increased overall stress, to basically no actual benefit to society. God, chills up and down my spine.