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This article is perfect. Basically it sums up to, "whats more likely, that every job disappears? (never happened in human history) or we get yet another expansi

This article is perfect. Basically it sums up to, "whats more likely, that every job disappears? (never happened in human history) or we get yet another expansion of products and innovations (always happens)?" "but this time is different" - I still have not seen a single example that shows otherwise. don't overthink it

hackinthebochs 3y ago
Historically, efficiency increases from technology were driven by innovation from narrow technology or mechanisms that brought a decrease in the costs of transactions. This saw an explosion of the space of viable economic activity and with it new classes of jobs and a widespread growth in prosperity. Productivity and wages largely remained coupled up until recent decades. Modern automation has seen productivity and wages begin to decouple. Decoupling will only accelerate as the use of AI proliferates. This time is different because AI has the potential to have a similar impact on efficiency across all work. In the past, efficiency gains created totally new spaces of economic activity in which the innovation could not further impact. But AI is a ubiquitous force multiplier, there is no productive human activity that AI can't disrupt. There is no analogous new space of economic activity that humanity as a whole can move to in order to stay relevant to the world's economic activity.
pixl97 3y ago
This is reductionist to the point of absurdity. Remember the Luddites. Yea, that group considered to be 'anti-technology', except that isn't what happened. At the time they were kicked to the street to starve with nowhere to live. AI does not have to replace every job to completely and totally disrupt society in ways like leading to world wars, or the rise again of fascist governments. Blind faith that the magic hand of technology always makes things better is just a form of historical ignorance of all the social changes that had to occur with it to ensure that we were not enslaved by those that owned technology.
- fullstackchris 3y ago
  oh give me a break, people were saying the same thing about cRyPto and all we got were stupid ape pictures in the end
  - pixl97 3y ago
    Crypto != intelligence. But the people that said the former did may have been lacking in the later.
naveen99 3y ago
We already know there are infinite primes. there isn’t anything special about humans. Life will continue as carbon or silicon.

hackinthebochs 3y ago

Historically, efficiency increases from technology were driven by innovation from narrow technology or mechanisms that brought a decrease in the costs of transactions. This saw an explosion of the space of viable economic activity and with it new classes of jobs and a widespread growth in prosperity. Productivity and wages largely remained coupled up until recent decades. Modern automation has seen productivity and wages begin to decouple. Decoupling will only accelerate as the use of AI proliferates. This time is different because AI has the potential to have a similar impact on efficiency across all work. In the past, efficiency gains created totally new spaces of economic activity in which the innovation could not further impact. But AI is a ubiquitous force multiplier, there is no productive human activity that AI can't disrupt. There is no analogous new space of economic activity that humanity as a whole can move to in order to stay relevant to the world's economic activity.

pixl97 3y ago

This is reductionist to the point of absurdity. Remember the Luddites. Yea, that group considered to be 'anti-technology', except that isn't what happened. At the time they were kicked to the street to starve with nowhere to live. AI does not have to replace every job to completely and totally disrupt society in ways like leading to world wars, or the rise again of fascist governments. Blind faith that the magic hand of technology always makes things better is just a form of historical ignorance of all the social changes that had to occur with it to ensure that we were not enslaved by those that owned technology.

fullstackchris 3y ago
oh give me a break, people were saying the same thing about cRyPto and all we got were stupid ape pictures in the end
- pixl97 3y ago
  Crypto != intelligence. But the people that said the former did may have been lacking in the later.

naveen99 3y ago

We already know there are infinite primes. there isn’t anything special about humans. Life will continue as carbon or silicon.