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I think you are committing the lump of labor fallacy [1]. Lots of jobs will disappear, but others will appear. Lots of things (both intellectual and material) t
by credit_guy 16d ago
I think you are committing the lump of labor fallacy [1]. Lots of jobs will disappear, but others will appear. Lots of things (both intellectual and material) that are produced nowadays by humans will be produced in the near future by AI. But humans will be needed to do new things.
Take the Hugging Face incident. Why did it happen? Because the people whose task was to set up a testing framework took shortcuts. Why did they? Because there weren't enough people who were assigned to do the job. Why not? Because the job is too new and not enough people are qualified to do it. It's a job that simply did not exist 3 years ago. But 3 years from now, this job might very well employ tens of thousands of high skill knowledge workers.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy
- jnwatson 16d agoYes, think of all the new security engineers we'll need!
- iron_albatross 16d agoThat’s fair. I guess I’m also thinking that whatever new kinds of intellectual work that arise from the introduction of AI could be also done by AI. But maybe this comes from a lack of imagination again.
- bluecheese452 16d agoThere is no guarantee it will be humans doing the labor.