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    9 months ago

    It also is creating new jobs. This is the same argument people used against electricity and mass production

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      9 months ago

      Then where are those new jobs? Where they at tho? Why do unemployment numbers keep going up after these AI-borne layoffs? Or, lemme guess, we started slashing actual human positions for Akinator and Cleverbot implementations but never had the fix action for lost human jobs even drafted up, let alone implemented, didn’t we?

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        9 months ago

        “Jobs” is a useless metric. What you should be looking at is GDP and the value of the dollar.

        Honestly if your job can be automated by a computer your time working it is numbered. It was the same thing with machines that could lay rail road tracks.

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          It was the same thing with machines that could lay rail road tracks.

          There wasn’t a plan there either, and that’s how we got shantytowns. Caping for the capitalists’ bad planning is not making you out to be “the adult in the room”. I don’t give a shit about GDP, that shit’s just a number that as evidenced by the “soaring economy yet ain’t no one want to hire” environment the current jobs market is, doesn’t affect my material conditions one goddamn whit.

          I give a shit about my peers and neighbors not winding up on the streets because they can no longer afford their homes after some shitbag executive decided “yeah, a glorified chatbot can do this job and fifteen thousand others”.