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> guess it heralded the end of white collar jobs. There is still studies that show that graduating in 2007-2009 permantly stunted your career earnings. Those g

> guess it heralded the end of white collar jobs. There is still studies that show that graduating in 2007-2009 permantly stunted your career earnings. Those gradutes were very much screwed, statistically speaking. Also there wasn't a narrative in 2008 about trying to automate your white collar work away. The powers that be do now want the white collar jobs to come back. It may not succeed, but it's going to create a sub-generation of people who completely lost faith in the country the reside in. That sort of population is dangerous, to say the least. >If you actually believe this, it makes you one of the rare few who likely could actually be replaced with an LLM. What's your interpretation then? LLM crashes and burns and Google just goes back to using humans again? Everything lives happily ever after?

theshackleford 1y ago
> There is still studies that show that graduating in 2007-2009 permantly stunted your career earnings. Those gradutes were very much screwed, statistically speaking. Sure, but that’s not the claim being made here, so it’s irrelevant. Also, my earnings are just fine. So again, seems like some made out ok, and others didnt. It certainly wasnt a permanent white collar apocalypse. > Also there wasn't a narrative in 2008 about trying to automate your white collar work away. That depends on where you were. Plenty of people I started with were automated out of their original roles and ended up in entirely different careers. In my industry, one person today can do what used to take ten. > What's your interpretation then? The same as it's always been. I'll live in reality and not a fantasty land sold by executives trying to sell me on their AI turd, or hide behind AI as a smokescreen for employment activities they were going to carry out either way. > LLM crashes and burns and Google just goes back to using humans again? It’ll settle into its place. Some jobs will get knocked out, the same way automation reshaped mine. But this idea that AI is about to replace the entire white collar workforce? Come back to me when this stuff isn’t confidently spitting out nonsense half the time because until then as far as I can see, this stuff at best lets people do more, it doesnt magically replace a workforce.

theshackleford 1y ago

> There is still studies that show that graduating in 2007-2009 permantly stunted your career earnings. Those gradutes were very much screwed, statistically speaking. Sure, but that’s not the claim being made here, so it’s irrelevant. Also, my earnings are just fine. So again, seems like some made out ok, and others didnt. It certainly wasnt a permanent white collar apocalypse. > Also there wasn't a narrative in 2008 about trying to automate your white collar work away. That depends on where you were. Plenty of people I started with were automated out of their original roles and ended up in entirely different careers. In my industry, one person today can do what used to take ten. > What's your interpretation then? The same as it's always been. I'll live in reality and not a fantasty land sold by executives trying to sell me on their AI turd, or hide behind AI as a smokescreen for employment activities they were going to carry out either way. > LLM crashes and burns and Google just goes back to using humans again? It’ll settle into its place. Some jobs will get knocked out, the same way automation reshaped mine. But this idea that AI is about to replace the entire white collar workforce? Come back to me when this stuff isn’t confidently spitting out nonsense half the time because until then as far as I can see, this stuff at best lets people do more, it doesnt magically replace a workforce.