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Maybe I am being naive but I think there will always be room for smarts. Every professor at any university has a dozen more project ideas than they have gradua
by lifeisstillgood 6mo ago
Maybe I am being naive but I think there will always be room for smarts.
Every professor at any university has a dozen more project ideas than they have graduate students, every factory boss has a dozen more optimisations than ways to implement them, and looking up into the night sky we have 95% of it that cannot be explained.
The gap is not too few smart people, nor too few "jobs" that need smarts. The gap is being prepared to arrange society and wealth so the "job" is discovery, science, sharing. We are no longer hunter gatherers, no longer a feudal society, perhaps we shall stop being whatever this one is and try a new one.
(and no, I don't think there is a name for the new one yet (its not socialism, maybe not capitalism).
Lets just not fall back to Feudal if we can help it
- larrytheworm 6mo ago[flagged]
- rogerrogerr 6mo agoYes, we have an infinite amount of knowledge work that needs done. But if AI is better at it than humans, we aren’t going to use humans. We don’t use chimpanzees for any knowledge work today, even though they’d be better at it than some other animals.
- parasubvert 6mo agoI think the evidence that AI is better at knowledge work without a human in the loop... is very limited. Humans with many agents will be more productive, but the tendency has been for these models is to regress to the mean when it comes to strategic insights.
- rogerrogerr 6mo agoSo far, I think you're right. But the rate of progress just seems so crazy that I'm not seeing any moats that look fundamental. I hope I'm wrong and you're right.