I think one form of cognitive labor will remain: What do we actually want to do/build. And this is simply because AI does not know our internal world. Maybe in a few years with some kind of BCI that is extremely good. But I don't see it happening at least for a few years.

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georgemcbay an hour ago | parent [-]

> I think one form of cognitive labor will remain: What do we actually want to do/build.

Sure, but you don't need very many people to do that relative to the billions of workers that currently exist.

If you wipe out 90% of all jobs instead of 100% the practical implications for society as a whole are roughly exactly the same.

The Great Depression was "only" 25% unemployment.

	▲	drnick1 16 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		A good precedent is mechanized agriculture. When machines effectively replaced most humans in agriculture, unemployment did not rise to 90%.