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.
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.