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I don’t doubt they will, but will we reap the benefits we should have gotten from automation? > In Bullshit Jobs, American anthropologist David Graeber posits
by Mistletoe 4y ago
I don’t doubt they will, but will we reap the benefits we should have gotten from automation?
> In Bullshit Jobs, American anthropologist David Graeber posits that the productivity benefits of automation have not led to a 15-hour workweek, as predicted by economist John Maynard Keynes in 1930, but instead to "bullshit jobs": "a form of paid employment that is so completely pointless, unnecessary, or pernicious that even the employee cannot justify its existence even though, as part of the conditions of employment, the employee feels obliged to pretend that this is not the case."
- BulgarianIdiot 4y agoDepends what you mean by "reap the benefits". When something is in overabundance, its economic value is zero. Of course, we still have that thing, which is abundant. This abundance will destroy industries, no doubt about it. The risk is that AI may wipe out its only source of data (us creating it) because it makes it economically infeasible for us to produce it any longer. Then we'll be stuck in a loop of mediocrity until eventually it all fizzles out. It's ab bit as if AI as "communism for thinking/creating". Everything is everyone's and no one's and and it's not scarce. But also we know all the problems that come with that lack of a real economy.
- dataviz1000 4y agoSome historians say the purpose of scrubbing the decks on early sailing vessels -- shipshape -- wasn't only because the decks needed to be cleaned and splinters removed by holy stone, rather it was as much to keep the crew occupied in order to prevent mutiny.
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