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They’ll have to adapt like every other generation has had to My grandmother was born in 1924 and died in 2019 please appreciate how much change she had to adap

They’ll have to adapt like every other generation has had to My grandmother was born in 1924 and died in 2019 please appreciate how much change she had to adapt to over that period

zwnow 11mo ago
Your grandma had plenty of opportunities in the post war eras. During her time there was always a need for human workers. While I dont think AI can actually replace anyone reliably, I still can see how executives buy into this promise and try it. This is a unique situation humanity never was confronted with. Even the industrialization required a lot of human work. If all white collar jobs went away there is a huge imbalance in available workers vs available work. Simply adapting to this isn't a thing given that monopolies killed competition and its not feasible for your everyday Joe to break into markets anymore. Kudos to your grandma for making it this long, simply not a comparable situation however.
- AndrewKemendo 11mo ago
  Survivorship bias What you’re not counting is all of the millions of people who died because they couldn’t actually adapt to the new world Which is fine but they didn’t need to be killed, they just became irrelevant and went away
  - zwnow 11mo ago
    So you are the type of person that actively contributes to the world being as shit as it is. Good to know. Your disregard for the weak disgusts me. Have a good evening.
    - AndrewKemendo 11mo ago
      So what are you going to do about it? You should probably do something then
LunaSea 11mo ago
And when did work done by humans stop existing between 1924 and 1990? Because that's the type of change we are talking about.
- AndrewKemendo 11mo ago
  Well considering that she had a bunch of secretaries doing typing for her as a bank manager then transitioned to a world where there were no typists anymore was a pretty explicit change from her perspective. She never learned how to type on a keyboard so you do the math
  - LunaSea 11mo ago
    Well the math is that the amount of jobs done by humans in that period of time is above zero.
    - AndrewKemendo 11mo ago
      The math is: her job disappeared so she had to retire to a low income housing unit funded by HUD in Houston

They’ll have to adapt like every other generation has had to My grandmother was born in 1924 and died in 2019 please appreciate how much change she had to adapt to over that period

zwnow 11mo ago

Your grandma had plenty of opportunities in the post war eras. During her time there was always a need for human workers. While I dont think AI can actually replace anyone reliably, I still can see how executives buy into this promise and try it. This is a unique situation humanity never was confronted with. Even the industrialization required a lot of human work. If all white collar jobs went away there is a huge imbalance in available workers vs available work. Simply adapting to this isn't a thing given that monopolies killed competition and its not feasible for your everyday Joe to break into markets anymore. Kudos to your grandma for making it this long, simply not a comparable situation however.

AndrewKemendo 11mo ago
Survivorship bias What you’re not counting is all of the millions of people who died because they couldn’t actually adapt to the new world Which is fine but they didn’t need to be killed, they just became irrelevant and went away
- zwnow 11mo ago
  So you are the type of person that actively contributes to the world being as shit as it is. Good to know. Your disregard for the weak disgusts me. Have a good evening.
  - AndrewKemendo 11mo ago
    So what are you going to do about it? You should probably do something then

LunaSea 11mo ago

And when did work done by humans stop existing between 1924 and 1990? Because that's the type of change we are talking about.

AndrewKemendo 11mo ago
Well considering that she had a bunch of secretaries doing typing for her as a bank manager then transitioned to a world where there were no typists anymore was a pretty explicit change from her perspective. She never learned how to type on a keyboard so you do the math
- LunaSea 11mo ago
  Well the math is that the amount of jobs done by humans in that period of time is above zero.
  - AndrewKemendo 11mo ago
    The math is: her job disappeared so she had to retire to a low income housing unit funded by HUD in Houston