While I agree that new skills must be learnt to survive, what exactly are these new skills in the AI-age?

I see this line everywhere - whenever someone's mourning their loss of a career, there's responses telling the person to "man up" (for lack of a better phrase) and learn new skills. Nobody says what these "new skills" are?

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chii an hour ago | parent [-]

> Nobody says what these "new skills" are?

it's unknown, because those skills and work associated with them are not yet created.

Just like how being a live streamer (or youtuber) is not a known skill until the advent of streaming platforms and their associated economies. If you asked on the internet in 1995 what kids would have done for a job in 2025, none of them would've said streamer.

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WelkinFolk 44 minutes ago | parent [-]

Understood. Then how does one brace for the upcoming slaughter? People knew that getting into software would become the hot new thing - almost guaranteeing a source of income. Hence the "push" for everyone to get into "coding", at least in my country (India) and from what I've heard on the internet - the US too.

How do people brace for the changes AI brings?

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jubilee33 33 minutes ago | parent [-]

That's a pretty philosophical questions when what you want is a concrete answer.

First step is to let go of the fear of it.

Sounds cheesy but reading Ekehardt Tolle helped me.

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WelkinFolk 23 minutes ago | parent [-]

Fair enough, I am kinda scared about everything these days.

Which one of his books should I read (first)?

	▲	jubilee33 10 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Ya fear of the unknown is not even anything uncommon for sure. Honestly ive only read "the power of now", Which I later learned was very mainstream popular, so I probably would have prejudged it had I knew. While not really original ideas he packages the concepts into very good words, so it made something click, for me at least, where other books hadn't.