I'm not worried about AI job loss
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I'm not worried about AI job loss
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#2Maybe you should be a little worried. A healthy fear never killed anyone.
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#4I read that essay on Twitter the other day and thought that it was a mildly interesting expression of one end of the "AI is coming for our jobs" thing but a little slop-adjacent and not worth sharing further.
And it's now at 80 million views! https://x.com/mattshumer_/status/2021256989876109403
It appears to have really caught the zeitgeist.
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#5> it’s been viewed about 100 million times and counting
That's a weird way of saying 80 million times.
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#7Maybe you should be a little worried. A healthy fear never killed anyone.
"For quality of life, it is better to err on the side of being an optimist and wrong, rather than a pessimist and right."
-Elon Musk
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#8Maybe you should be a little worried. A healthy fear never killed anyone.
I mean - anxiety definitely kills people, right?
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#9Labor substitution is extremely difficult and almost everybody hand waves it away.
Take even the most unskilled labor that people can think about such as flipping a burger at a restaurant like McDonald's. In reality that job is multiple different roles mixed into one that are constantly changing. Multiple companies have experimented with machines and robots to perform this task all with very limited success and none with any proper economics.
Let's be charitable and assume that this type of fast food worker gets paid $50,000 a year. For that job to be displaced it needs to be performed by a robot that can be acquired for a reasonable capital expenditure such as $200,000 and requires no maintenance, upkeep, or subscription fees.
This is a complete non-reality in the restaurant industry. Every piece of equipment they have cost them significant amounts and ongoing maintenance even if it's the most basic equipment such as a grill or a fryer. The reality is that they pay service technicians and professionals a lot of money to keep that equipment barely working.