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This is my goto book to recommend when people are scared about being replaced by GPT.
by _cenw 3y ago
This is my goto book to recommend when people are scared about being replaced by GPT.
- PeterStuer 3y agoThe article was great. The book was insufferable and didn't add substance.
- esquire_900 3y agoExactly. Like so many popular non-fiction books these days, there's about 15 pages of content fluffed up with 200 pages of anecdotes to be able to sell it as a book.
- arrowsmith 3y agoI thought the same of Graeber's book about Debt. It's not a bad book and I feel like I learned something from it but Christ it was like 5x longer than it needed to be and felt very unstructured.
- moffkalast 3y agoIronically, a bullshit job.
- esafak 3y agoWhat consolation is that? At least a BS job pays the bills.
- _cenw 3y agoYou misunderstand my point. A BS job wasn't necessary in the first place, so it's unlikely to be replaced by GPT. The market is pretty bad at optimizing the amount of labor large corporations need, and this isn't going to change this.
- medvezhenok 3y agoRather, I would say that with added capacity for work, what we choose to do is make things safer. And safety demands regulations which increase regulatory work and bureaucratic overhead to get anything done. So the jobs become observing all of the laws that we passed in the name of safety and equity (look at workplace accident rates since early 1900s. Or child labor rates). When you look at it this way, there's no stopping, since there will always be more "dangerous" or "unfair" things to optimize away with added labor.
- zeroonetwothree 3y agoI don’t think this is very convincing. The higher ups might think a job is necessary even though it isn’t. So they may still invest in automating it even if it wasn’t necessary in the first place.
- clnq 3y agoHmm... a lot of jobs being displaced by ML are technical, and not very bullshit.
- arrowsmith 3y agoThis article relates the two: https://compactmag.com/article/a-i-might-not-steal-your-bullshit-job https://compactmag.com/article/a-i-might-not-steal-your-bull...