The future is emotional
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The future is emotional
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#2Non-falsifiable predictions.
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#3Non-falsifiable predictions.
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#4Is there a job that doesn't require some emotional intelligence?
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#6Is there a job that doesn't require some emotional intelligence?
Mechanical Turk?
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#7Is there a job that doesn't require some emotional intelligence?
Sure. Most manufacturing jobs, warehouse stocking jobs, plenty of farm jobs (consistently underrated in terms of salary vs skills).
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#8Is there a job that doesn't require some emotional intelligence?
Factory worker? (Though for any job, it still helps to get along with people.)
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#9I'm a bit annoyed at the constant background snide and subtle implication of these vague literary articles, that programmers are bad empathetically or emotionally. They use facts such as western programming culture being very male-dominated, and then twist this to imply that males are bad at being empathetic.
Firstly the gender ratio of engineers in e.g. Russia is more even, so let's just shoot that one down before continuing. There's a lot of gender imbalance in Western culture as a whole and to imply that most of it is the "fault" of unemotional males is pretty insulting.
Often this also accompanied by some implicit value judgement assumption, that they attempt to force onto the programmer. "My values are better than yours". Er, no sorry. If you think a programmer is being unemotional, perhaps you should take a step back and examine whether it is you who are being unempathetic, brushing away someone else's engineering concerns as being less important than your own personal feelings about a topic that you don't have a good knowledge of?
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#10If anything, we will see people preferring a lot less human interaction.
People used to gather in salons to hear live music. Today we put earphones on a train to listen to music instead of socializing.
If we socialize, we do it with other consumers, not producers.
Compare photos of the 50s and now. Everyone was socializing outside. Today they are on fb with the phones mediating.
The milkman doesn't come around anymore. The gas station attendant doesn't fill up your car in many states. The Uber driver drops food off and leaves right away. Amazon delivers.
We want it globally accessible, accurate, and now.
Already you prefer to ask Google than your parents or teachers, and so do they.
In the future as AI gets better how do you know people will still want that smiling McDonalds cashier instead of a kiosk? Or the personal touch of a chef instead of a machine that gets the same result every time?