Seven Ways to Avoid Losing Your Job to AI
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#2Archive copy: https://archive.ph/SY91j
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#3Interesting counter-intuitive tip on WFH. The study called out looks more like a co-relation and not a causation.
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#4Make yourself indispensable.
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#5The easiest thing IMO is probably to just pick a career path that isn’t reducible to a person doing something on a computer.
If I were 20 again and picking future-proof careers, personally I think I’d go into sailing / ships or become a chef. Neither are easy jobs and the income is less than working in tech, but I don’t see Claude replacing ship captains or head chefs anytime in the next fifty years.
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#6Or you can build your own business, at least you are the owner so it’s kinda hard to layoff yourself unless willingly.
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#7Andrej Karpathy said once, that ..”ultimately, everything is automatable”, and as for me - it’s very likely. So I choose principle three: be proficient with AI tools.
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#8This article is hot garbage going over some of the 'principals' they list.
> This is a more general version of the healthcare point. AI will generate so many new ideas and hypotheses, including for drugs and medical devices, but not only. Become a tester. Test new battery designs, new educational techniques, or new methods of conserving valued wildlife.
Like what the hell does this passage even mean? We're six years into the increasing AI psychosis among companies and you would think if it was good for ideas and hypothesis we would see them by now. Instead what we see is something incredibly incestuous as AI nonsense infects every sector whether or not it's actually needed. And in the realm where creativity flourishes I can't think of a single game that actively benefitted from the usage of AI.
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#9The easiest thing IMO is probably to just pick a career path that isn’t reducible to a person doing something on a computer. If I were 20 again and picking future-proof careers, personally I think I’d go into sailing / ships or become a chef. Neither are easy jobs and the income is less than working in tech, but I don’t see Claude replacing ship captains or head chefs anytime in the next fifty years.
>>I don’t see Claude replacing ship captains or head chefs anytime in >>the next fifty years.
The nature of AI is that it can do any role.
"Autonomous cargo ship" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_cargo_ship
"Robotic kitchen with AI cooks and serves 120 meals an hour without human help" - https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/autonomous-ai-...
Re: Seven Ways to Avoid Losing Your Job to AI
#10The easiest thing IMO is probably to just pick a career path that isn’t reducible to a person doing something on a computer. If I were 20 again and picking future-proof careers, personally I think I’d go into sailing / ships or become a chef. Neither are easy jobs and the income is less than working in tech, but I don’t see Claude replacing ship captains or head chefs anytime in the next fifty years.
>>I don’t see Claude replacing ship captains or head chefs anytime in >>the next fifty years. The nature of AI is that it can do any role. "Autonomous cargo ship" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_cargo_ship "Robotic kitchen with AI cooks and serves 120 meals an hour without human help" - https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/autonomous-ai-...
Yeah, and these are niche things that aren't going to replace the professions of cook or ship captain for 99.99% of scenarios. People paying for a high-end meal especially want a trained chef making their meals, not a robot. And the vast majority of restaurants don't have the resources to install an AI robot in the first place.
For sea captains, I'd say it's highly likely that even automated ships will have captains on board for a very long time.
In general it's like a lot of these "AI predictions": people making claims don't actually understand anything about the industries they're supposedly going to replace. Just because it can do something in an isolated scenario doesn't mean that it's economically viable as a whole.