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Displaced workers. I mean, maaaaaybe a Jevon's Paradox kicks into play with human labor and replacing people with robots somehow creates even more jobs, but wh
by smallmancontrov 4mo ago
Displaced workers.
I mean, maaaaaybe a Jevon's Paradox kicks into play with human labor and replacing people with robots somehow creates even more jobs, but whenever someone says this your immediate response should be: "ok, now put your money where your mouth is and bet on it by strengthening the social safety net."
- Esophagus4 4mo agoI generally do believe that workers get redeployed elsewhere after technological disruption. (Eg agricultural revolution in the US) I do believe in good safety nets as well and I think that shows in my voting record, so I’m not sure what else you would expect from me, if anything.
- inigyou 4mo agoThis assumes sufficient jobs. We have been below replacement jobs for a long time but we made up the difference with Bullshit Jobs. Now we might even be running out of those.
- Esophagus4 4mo ago> Bullshit Jobs I’ve only read the article, not the full book, but I’m not sure I buy the premise. Maybe we can’t see what the new post-AI society looks like yet, but I tend to believe society progresses as it evolves. It doesn’t mean it won’t be rocky for many people, and good social safety nets will make this easier, but I generally don’t think there will be some kind of dystopian future where society runs out of work to do for humans.
- inigyou 4mo agoA lot of current bullshit jobs involve generating text that nobody reads or cares about. LLMs replace these.
- hparadiz 4mo agoEveryone kinda ignores that you can now generate that text in any language at a whim and it will do a far better job than previous translation programs. What a huge improvement in efficiency.
- inigyou 4mo agoBullshit jobs have to be inefficient to work or else we have an unemployment crisis.
- Muromec 4mo agoIf the bullshit job is really bullshit by design and is intended to solve unemployment crisis, then LLMs will not threaten them. There will be a new kind bullshit job to plug the new hole in the resource allocation algo.
- inigyou 4mo agoThey're by structural design but no individual employer thinks they're making a bullshit job. It's a bit like how every vendor sets prices but really, the federal reserve does.