And this is off by about 45-50 years. Don't think people get what's coming down the pike with AI + connectivity.https://twitter.com/danprimack/status/845255965071069184 …
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Much AI press has been focused on interesting but largely irrelevant stuff. Chess. Trolleys. Real criteria: "good enough" to do human task.
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Not only is "good enough" coming down fast, AI plus connectivity means that people will be even more replaced with "cheaper" ones abroad.
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Won't just be AI; won't just be outsourcing. It'll be someone in Bangalore doing a task in Kansas; aided by AI, paid pennies. Already here.
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Same way Facebook employs so few well-paid people in the US. It automates most tasks; pays people in Philippines etc. to do rest cheap.
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This business model —not just tech but coming to many industries—isn't compatible with a robust democracy AND current form of globalization.
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I feel we're living in the next chapter of Tuchman's great book, "The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam". All this is solvable. sigh.
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After wreaking havoc with the world for hundreds of years; and two global wars; and *almost* global annihilation.https://twitter.com/dansblog1/status/845310890765271040 …
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I don't know how anyone who looks at the history of the previous industrial revolution and draws comfort. We almost did the whole world in.
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Things *briefly* stabilized after the *second* global war; efforts like Marshall plan, EU, UN—happened under shadow of nuclear brinkmanship.
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Expect a lot more of this. It's not just AI. Not just connectivity. Not just current form of globalization... https://twitter.com/stevenwgomes/status/845313008687632384 …
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Nothing about "factory jobs" makes them "good jobs." 19th century: Dickensian hell. 1960s for ~white men in US: politics+unions+edu policy.
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Also, more uncomfortably, policies restricting access of women/nonwhites to higher ed, workplace, less competition from trade.
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