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naraburns  nihil supernum  1yr ago (text post)   3961 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for March 3, 2023

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I wonder if we will discover that there are many jobs which are, in fact, net negative for the economy only when people doing them get automated away and their sinecures lose lobbying power .

Interesting - which jobs come to mind? HR and environmental reg agencies jump to mind for me.

HR, environmental regulation, personal banking/financial advising, marketing and fundraising, low-risk medical diagnostics, social work, secretaries, most software operations (devops) teams, data analysis, first-pass website content moderation, (indirectly) higher education Arts departments, and some others I'm sure I'm forgetting.

I think the far more interesting thing is that most of the industries in the crosshairs of AI are majority-female; it's the first example of a technology that's going to primarily replace women (nearly all technology ever invented only replaces men) and I think the political effects of that are going to be very, very interesting when you combine it with the fact that a lot of the women currently in those jobs will be single and functionally sterile when they're replaced.

Which reminds me that I should probably buy some Petco stock.

I get a it confused by that list tbh.

A lot of these things are either not useless or not going to be automated in the near term. I might despise advertising and people working with advertising as much as the next dude but you're dreaming of you think AI is going to make this go away.

I shamelessly reposted this to the CW thread if you want to throw this in there. I tend to agree, given that women have social power maybe UBI will actually happen once women are affected?

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