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Bernardo de La Paz

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11. No. But your point about jobs & economy is good.
Thu Oct 30, 2025, 09:36 PM
Oct 30

Jobs aren't going away, though specific ones will and many jobs will change radically. There are all kinds of other jobs that need doing, so there will be disruption and dislocation. But ultimately two things will happen:

1) The unsustainable concentration of wealth and income will either come undone by reform or revolution. Reform could lead to things like guaranteed basic income from the huge productivity and profits.

2) There will remain for the foreseeable future (say to the end of 2100) a need for judgment, especially with AI. There will be two broad categories of jobs in the future: high touch and high judgment.

2a) High touch is all about human-human interaction. Live entertainment, turning a patient over in a hospital bed, teach a child a craft. If robots are fixing cars and painting walls, people will want to interact with people. Yes there will be loners ( (a little bit)) and withdrawn people with their tamaguchis and their AI pals and AI pets, etc. (not me). But most people like at least some people and that will become valuable and desirable by contrast.

2b) With AI slop and "hallucinations", which will persist even when high level reasoning is integrated, there is and will remain a need to ride herd over AI agents and bots and robots. An AI might develop a plan for accomplishing a goal that involves writing code, but also how the code will interact with people and how it will be sold and marketed etc. All of that will have to be reviewed, tested, adjusted, or aborted, as the case may be.

2c) Beyond judgment, there will always be a need for creativity. People who say that AI can't be creative don't really understand creativity and its wellsprings. However, AI creativity will mainly be thinking inside the box. People can supply outside-the-box creativity beyond judgment.

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Worrying. cachukis Oct 30 #1
Yes, somewhat. . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Oct 30 #8
So they'll fast-track AI in all the things just to prop up the economy. tinrobot Oct 30 #2
They haven't forgotten that at all - the EXACT same machines are the ones used to make crypto coins AZJonnie Oct 30 #10
No. But your point about jobs & economy is good. Bernardo de La Paz Oct 30 #11
There was some AI generated music that really amazed me... I like your take on this btw... bsiebs Oct 30 #23
It wouldn't amaze you if you cared about the artists whose work was stolen to train the AI. highplainsdem Oct 31 #28
I'm amazed at what trump did to the east wing of the white house... doesn't mean I agree with it... bsiebs Oct 31 #30
Well, that is all grand UpInArms Oct 30 #3
Wrong. You seem to have adopted an ideological tenet in your first sentence and warped your perspective around it. Bernardo de La Paz Oct 30 #12
Pick your poison genxlib Oct 30 #4
A limited perspective leads to nihilism. Enlarge your perspective and think outside of the box a little more. Bernardo de La Paz Oct 30 #13
I posted earlier. usonian Oct 30 #5
Yes, it is a bubble, but the previous internet bubble of 2000 led to smart phones and many things we love to use. Bernardo de La Paz Oct 30 #15
I'm not finding the "how the crash happens" part Fiendish Thingy Oct 30 #6
The improvements made by each new AI model are becoming smaller and smaller, making the idea that Silicon Valley can Celerity Oct 30 #7
Just like LLMs were revolutionary, there are or will be new revolutionary developments that won't be small and increment Bernardo de La Paz Oct 30 #17
Thank You Fiendish Thingy Oct 30 #18
Likewise. The article laid out many issues a lot of us are familiar with but was not very enlightening. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Oct 30 #16
The crash or bubble deflation will be triggered by small or large collapses of financing built on over-promises & fraud Bernardo de La Paz Oct 30 #20
There are plenty of pay AI services IronLionZion Oct 30 #25
If i understand it, which is a big question Bmoboy Oct 30 #9
No. Not a takeover of all such jobs. There will remain a need for judgement, creativity, and oversight Bernardo de La Paz Oct 30 #19
That's not a huge workforce Bmoboy Oct 30 #21
People said the same thing about the transition to mechanized farming. They were wrong. Bernardo de La Paz Oct 30 #22
DURec leftstreet Oct 30 #14
AI growth's raised electrical utility costs nationwide. Per Forbes & Joinarbor.com, residential costs have risen by 30% ancianita Oct 30 #24
One thing I noticed in the picture. Mr. Evil Oct 30 #26
I think trump wants and needs a crash. Our debt level is too high and the costs to service the debt. Melon Oct 30 #27
Thanks, Celerity! Generative AI is the most harmful tech ever developed, and if there was ever an highplainsdem Oct 31 #29
The investments based on an expectation of exponential growth of profits al bupp Nov 1 #31
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