I don’t particularly like the horse to engine angle because it doesn’t capture the issue well.

When we automated physical activity people that were crowded out moved into knowledge work. Now we’re automating knowledge work so people move into ???

Leisure? Become a useless class? UBI? Something else entirely?

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AndrewDucker 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

How are your plumbing skills?

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pvab3 5 hours ago | parent [-]

You mean my meat proxy skills while wearing a Ratatouille machine-vision head camera that tells me what wrench to pick up and how to crimp the Pex rings?

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fragmede 5 hours ago | parent [-]

You're telling me Google Gemini robot 2 tying a trash bag isn't also gonna be able to crimp PEX rings?

	▲	sellmesoap an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The solution is probably a trash bag with a mini forklift compatible lift rings, an optical center mark, a ratcheting closure, and make a raspberry PI do the computing millions of dollars of tooling to make a robot compatible trash bag but it might be worth it, deploy the bean counters!
	▲	AndrewDucker 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It will. But having watched the video, I can tie one faster and cheaper. This week. Next week, who knows?

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win311fwg 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The knowledge economy was already on the way out in favour of the performance economy even before LLMs. LLMs have also shown that they can produce in the performance space, of course, so it remains to be seen how valuable humans are in that position but so far it would appear that many are willing to pay for a "human connection".

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smallmancontrov 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> Become a useless class?

Like our capital class overlords?