>Software Developers +15% Yay! >Computer Programmers: -6% Oh no
I'd chalk that up to a change in terminology over time, I could be wrong there though
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#42It's kinda cool to see a whole lot of otherwise intelligent people who are so dogmatically and ideologically opposed to anything AI that they're going to willfully dismiss anything that AI produces regardless of utility. It's not great for them, but it's a definite advantage for people who are already in the mindset of distinguishing and discriminating information and sources on merit, instead of running an "AI bad"…
The best predictor I can find of a segment being green in median wage is if it's red in digital AI exposure.
So... What exactly are you talking about?
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#43It's kinda cool to see a whole lot of otherwise intelligent people who are so dogmatically and ideologically opposed to anything AI that they're going to willfully dismiss anything that AI produces regardless of utility. It's not great for them, but it's a definite advantage for people who are already in the mindset of distinguishing and discriminating information and sources on merit, instead of running an "AI bad"…
Eh, idk about this. One nice thing about humans is that they still feed themselves when the economy collapses.
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
> You can be an expert in one field, and have no idea what you're doing in another. And for whatever reason a lot of people in startup/tech seem to have a huge Dunning-Kruger effect blind spot where they believe knowing a lot about one thing makes them an expert in everything. This used to just be funny, but when it started to intersect with politics it began to actively contribute to destroying society. It isn't fun…
It is wild that ya'll are hating on a website that visualizes data. That's like table stakes standard common practice for software engineers for decades. This is the equivalence of telling a Designer that can't create infographics on anything but principled design subjects -- or else they're out of line. Any research or data they might use isn't relevant because they're not exerts? lol?
> a website that visualizes data
It is a website that visualizes the output of an LLM prompt and passes it off as data. Big difference between the two.
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#45It's wild that there are as many jobs in the category "Top Executives" as in the category "Retail Sales Worker".
This makes sense given both automation and the US's role in the global economy, but it runs somewhat contrary to standard ideas of class and inequality.
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#46>Software Developers +15% Yay! >Computer Programmers: -6% Oh no
Software Developers median pay according to BLS: $131,450 per year (Source: https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/... ) Computer Programmers median pay according to BLS: $98,670 per year (Source: https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/... ) Software developers typically do the following: - Analyze users’ needs and then design and develop software to meet those needs Recommen…
Still look the same to me.
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#47If AI produces surplus where does it go? Not talking about investment backed datacenter buildout and AI labs. Talking about the results of AI work... I think AI outcomes distribute to contexts where it is used, and produce a change in how we work, what work we take on. Competition takes care of taking those surpluses and investing them in new structure, which becomes load bearing and we can't do without it anymore. I…
If AI being a million billion zillion times more productive at doing bullshit jobs nets in very little economic gain, then that lays bare the net economic value of all our bullshit jobs. But given that the stock market hasn't panicked, this must mean at least one of these premises is false: 1. Economic activity is relatively flat. 2. AI makes us a million billion zillion times more productive than we used to be. 3. T…
the market split from reality in 2020 for the last time. This is all just zeroes and ones, which is why they can make the real economy tank.
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#48Almost everyone I know is limited to two areas, and of those, 90% are in one corner.
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#49It's kinda cool to see a whole lot of otherwise intelligent people who are so dogmatically and ideologically opposed to anything AI that they're going to willfully dismiss anything that AI produces regardless of utility. It's not great for them, but it's a definite advantage for people who are already in the mindset of distinguishing and discriminating information and sources on merit, instead of running an "AI bad"…
The raw anti Ai hate for anything that even mentions it makes me think of the early days of the internet where it was considered just a fad.
In the early days of the internet, there were roughly 3 categories of views I remember:
1. Brick and mortar is dead.
2. The internet will die.
3. What is the business model? (this one still seems to exist to this day to some extent, lol)
Reality fell between 1 and 2.
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#50Are childcare and kindergarten teachers really exposed to AI? In theory, we could put a class of 30 children in front of chatbots with one supervisor. But I doubt we would chose to do this as a society. If office work becomes more automated, early childhood education is actually one area I'd expect to take up the Slack. I can't imagine a situation where we have millions of unemployed former office workers but we leav…
Childcare and education requires a specific tolerance, mindset and passion to be effective though. I'd be curious how many previously-PMs or HR drones or email jockeys would be adequate (let alone thrive) in an environment where there are next-to-nonexistent budgets, and you're servicing literal babies and tiny children lol On second thought, client service folks might do extremely well here!
Con: kids