Looks like a lot of people are going with “denial”. Not a good plan.
My personal plan is to have spent the last twenty years saving intensively for retirement, which looks like it’s a good plan for me but is not something that can be started right now by others.
So I’m not really sure what to recommend. Try to get ready for a period of unemployment and hopefully things will stabilize quickly enough that a new career path will become evident? Getting started on a new one right now might not be a good idea if things will change drastically over the next few years and potentially eliminate that too, so just build up savings and resources as best you can I guess. Research unemployment benefits ahead of time so you’ll know what to do if something happens without warning.
Denial of a prediction from the same techbros who said bitcoins would replace dollars and banks, or NFTs would be used for real estate,.or napster would launch the careers of new musicians, or.you wouldnt need a printer anymore,.or computers would lead to a.three day workweek,isn’t exactly Luddites complaining about weaving machines.
If LLMs are still economical after the bubble pops they’ll be tools that increase efficiency and in some cases help one human do your job and someone else’s. Which was exactly the trend for all jobs before the AI bubble started.
A lot of people realize that AI isn’t going to take that many jobs, and it’s just a paranoid talking point.
I use AI tools in my job… the vast majority of them constantly break and who has to fix that? Me. They break themselves with feature updates…
the AI panick is just fear of automation. automation often produces different kinds of jobs while it reduces others. also it increases throughput, meaning you need more workers.
Automation reduces repetitive common tasks. It always fails when a task is outside the average range. The more complex a task, the lower the probability is to achieve successful automation.
What the techbros and billionaires don’t understand is that most jobs that exist today are because of their difficulty in automating already. Seemingly simple jobs have hidden complexity.
Since my job is highly complex, non-repetative, with a very high degree of non-recorded specialized knowledge, my fear of a LLM replacing me approaches zero.
Ironic: the same troll (Facedeer) complained people were too paranoid about job loss:
I think the online rhetoric around AI has been way more apocalyptic than the more vague and abstract political stuff… All jobs will be taken away and everyone will be reduced to serfs or killed as surplus population? Drum that into a sufficiently mentally fragile subset of the population long and hard enough and you’ll get them worked up enough to feel like they need to strike first.
Looks like a lot of people are going with “denial”. Not a good plan.
My personal plan is to have spent the last twenty years saving intensively for retirement, which looks like it’s a good plan for me but is not something that can be started right now by others.
So I’m not really sure what to recommend. Try to get ready for a period of unemployment and hopefully things will stabilize quickly enough that a new career path will become evident? Getting started on a new one right now might not be a good idea if things will change drastically over the next few years and potentially eliminate that too, so just build up savings and resources as best you can I guess. Research unemployment benefits ahead of time so you’ll know what to do if something happens without warning.
Denial of a prediction from the same techbros who said bitcoins would replace dollars and banks, or NFTs would be used for real estate,.or napster would launch the careers of new musicians, or.you wouldnt need a printer anymore,.or computers would lead to a.three day workweek,isn’t exactly Luddites complaining about weaving machines.
If LLMs are still economical after the bubble pops they’ll be tools that increase efficiency and in some cases help one human do your job and someone else’s. Which was exactly the trend for all jobs before the AI bubble started.
A lot of people realize that AI isn’t going to take that many jobs, and it’s just a paranoid talking point.
I use AI tools in my job… the vast majority of them constantly break and who has to fix that? Me. They break themselves with feature updates…
the AI panick is just fear of automation. automation often produces different kinds of jobs while it reduces others. also it increases throughput, meaning you need more workers.
Automation reduces repetitive common tasks. It always fails when a task is outside the average range. The more complex a task, the lower the probability is to achieve successful automation.
What the techbros and billionaires don’t understand is that most jobs that exist today are because of their difficulty in automating already. Seemingly simple jobs have hidden complexity.
Since my job is highly complex, non-repetative, with a very high degree of non-recorded specialized knowledge, my fear of a LLM replacing me approaches zero.
Ironic: the same troll (Facedeer) complained people were too paranoid about job loss:
But what’s a troll without inconsistent rhetoric…
Currently AI is a buzzword and excuse to lay people off, i think that has always been the plan.