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Didn't that already happen with US to China from the 70s
by ge96 2y ago
Didn't that already happen with US to China from the 70s
- tempodox 2y agoThose who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
- makeitdouble 2y agoShareholders in the 70s made a lot of money. They'll be OK to rinse and repeat that history.
- tempodox 2y agoTrue. And the people selling shovels for the “AI” gold rush are making boatloads of money now. But it's still up to us whether we buy their customers' products.
- __MatrixMan__ 2y agoThat'll only work if somebody is willing to do the job for a lower price. The US may be in a different position the next time around.
- trashtester 2y agoSomebody, or SOMETHING. There will not be much work that cannot be done by Figure, Optimus, Atlas, Claude, Grok or GPT by 2035.
- ozfive 2y agoWe've heard this for many decades. I'm sure we will be hearing it for decades more...
- __MatrixMan__ 2y agoI think we'll reach "most work done by unattended robots" around 2070. But we'd be better off if started working on post-labor-scarcity economics ASAP--might as well start learning to swim before the ship sinks. It might even be fun.
- ozfive 2y agoSomeone once told me be a cook, a hairdresser, or a repairman.
- gaze 2y agoIt doesn't really matter if they can or can't do the work. If enough execs are convinced AI can replace the workers, they will replace the workers, and management will have moved onto other things before they suffer consequences.
- dudefeliciano 2y agogerman automakers are experiencing this right now
- aleph_minus_one 2y agoThe problem with the German automotive industry is in my opinion different: they developed cars which are not different from the kind of cars that many people in their market want.