Connor McCormick ☀️ on Warpcast

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Genuine question: are we going to have jobs?

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@aviationdoctor.eth

One more thought. Instead of a binary outcome (employment vs unemployment), it’s possible that AI will simply reduce the number of work hours needed, leading to the 4 or even 3 day workweek. Bill Gates just made that argument: https://fortune.com/2023/11/23/bill-gates-microsoft-3-day-work-week-machines-make-food/amp/

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@deanpierce.eth

I think there will always be high end educators, and artists. I envision most people basically getting paid to be gaming all day, either remotely controlling fine tasks somewhere, or acting as RLHF agents. Some people will make a living by running crypto nodes, some by providing liquidity to growing markets.

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yeah I think so

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Here’s Tacos’ take https://x.com/delicious_tacos/status/1709970755201700126

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Yes, and like with every technological step change most don't exist today and are almost impossible for us to imagine.

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On what timeline? I have a hard time imagining jobs going away in the next 5 years. No sense to me in guessing what will happen beyond that. But I do think there’s a general lack of recognition of how analog many jobs still are

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All of us? yea for sure. Vast swaths of the “modern” world still operate with paper filing cabinets. There’s clearly a lot of things more important to people than efficiency or progress - but eventually (if we redesign the baseline), the future might now.

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I think labor has evolved from "making a living" to "having a vocation". we should be more free to explore and thrive. ppl used to ask if we'd still have farming, or the manufacturing plant, but that's a question of fiscal/fiduciary alignment. we should figure out blockers to universal quality of life in the meantime.

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What’s the time horizon here?

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Yes. “the general level of unemployment must be distinguished from the displacement of particular workers at particular time and places” — US Govt, 1966 https://conversableeconomist.com/2014/12/01/automation-and-job-loss-the-fears-of-1964/ More recently, I did my grad thesis on this

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when the dust settles, all that will be left will be metal, and our one job as humans will be staying alive.

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Matthew 6:28-34 is how I am TRYING to think about it (L) Player Piano by Vonnegut is such a great imagining of how it could all go (R)

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I think there will always be work to do. But if you mean "jobs to earn a living," I'm not so sure. Anecdotally I'm already seeing big changes among the freelance content writers/editors I know. Crypto needs to spend more time on UBI experiments IMO.

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Hopefully we won’t have jobs, but something much better: Work.

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Joan Westenberg

In an ideal world - one with a universal basic income - none of us will have jobs. We will have pastimes.

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@cosimojack.eth

Yeah most people will just have better jobs but larger cohort of people will be unemployable

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Hopefully not Hopefully we’ll pursue avocations But it could be unemployment and destitution

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I think we’ll have to learn to get our work life satisfaction from playing video games.

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yes. we will all be nurses, plumbers, or daycare providers.

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