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I'm a scientist. On the one hand I take some comfort in thinking that I will always have an advantage in the lab. On the other hand I'm not taking anything for
by analog31 2mo ago
I'm a scientist. On the one hand I take some comfort in thinking that I will always have an advantage in the lab. On the other hand I'm not taking anything for granted. And my advantage in the lab has to translate into an employer being smart enough to keep me around until if and when the AI takes over, which kind of translates into their investors wanting to keep me around.
We know what happened to manufacturing when investors were no longer interested in it.
- stogot 2mo agoAre you suggesting outsourcing? AI produces hypothesis, a chief scientist approves, and it’s outsourced to a lab in Vietnam to execute.
- analog31 2mo agoThat could happen today, but the chief scientist presumably comes up with the hypothesis. I still think the US has a comparative advantage in science, but it's under attack. Beyond that, I don't know. Admittedly, I work in a smaller lab setting. There's no chief scientist that I'm aware of, or systematic production of hypotheses. That might be for the bigger labs.