5 pointsby borissk2 hours ago7 comments
  • AstroBen16 minutes ago
    We have no idea what the world's going to look like in 5 years. Maximize your ability to adapt, grow, learn and get things done. Any plan you make today is going to be worse than a plan made 3 years from now with more information.
  • OgsyedIE2 hours ago
    There's a lot of clarity to be gained by decomposing the question of "a living" into its parts.

    How do you plan to continue the processes of gaining sustenance and economic power as needed? Do you own the land or capital needed for your sustenance or do you need to trade for them? If you need to trade, what assets or capabilities do you have to trade?

    How well are these guarded against theft, cyberattack, romance scams against you, quasi-legal expropriation and changes in the legal system that eliminate your status of having property rights?

    We'd better hope that robotic replacements for human hands aren't soon in coming.

  • butterbomb2 hours ago
    Violent robberies committed against people who said it wouldn’t happen.
    • tiznowan hour ago
      If my heat stops working then my heat starts working.
    • borisskan hour ago
      Those people may have armed robot guards.
      • butterbomb38 minutes ago
        Well then it sounds like I’ll be free of my problems soon enough
  • satvikpendem2 hours ago
    The premise is flawed, I don't see AI taking jobs because companies want to grow in productivity generally speaking and would rather just make their existing employees do more; all productivity saving technologies have always been net positive in the amount of jobs created.
    • paulcole37 minutes ago
      > all productivity saving technologies have always been net positive in the amount of jobs created

      To what extent has the net increase in jobs been because there have just been more people who needed to work in order for society to not collapse?

      Population growth is slowing (expected to peak in 2080-ish). To some, AI feels like a different sort of "productivity enhancer" than we've seen in this past.

      I don't think the person's premise is flawed. It's more that you just disagree with it.

    • borisskan hour ago
      The counter argument to that is what happened with horses. Since domestication every advance of human civilization lead to having more horses. Until cars were invented and improved - which eliminated overnight 90% of the number of horses used.

      So the fact that in the past new technologies have created new jobs is not a guarantee that AI will create new jobs.

      On top of that have a look what happened say during the industrial revolution in Britain. You'd have a village with 2000 workers producing clothes or materials to make clothes. A rich guy opens a factory in that village that employees 200 people and produces more than the whole village before that. 90% are unemployed, the 10% that work in factory have far worse working conditions. Studying graves from that time shows the height of people went down during the industrial revolution - as the conditions in the factories were far worse than what they had before. Hence the luddite movement - but as the reach people owned the mass media, the luddites were portrayed as crazy. Eventually, many years later, new better jobs did appear.

  • jryan4940 minutes ago
    IMHO no one know what the heck is going to happen. Probably will have to adapt to the situation as needed... In other words, it's too hard to predict to come up with a plan ahead of time?
  • verdverm2 hours ago
    UBI
  • reify2 hours ago
    fingers crossed!

    If ai takes enough jobs from people.

    we will all get together, start a revolution and overthrow our respective governments.

    desperate people will do desperate things to survive

    There are always more of us than them.

    I truly hope that it happens in my lifetime. I really am sick of this shitty world.

    Its not what I was promised 69 years ago when I was born.

    • borisskan hour ago
      The governments may have by that time armies of drones and robots, controlled by a few loyal people or AI.