AI driven labor crisis?

[GaryM]

Yep. Given that they have access to everything known about 17th century building practices and an HVAC tech doesn't, I feel very comfortable about making that prediction.

I wasn't aware that everything about 17th century building practices had been digitized for consumption by the LLMs.

 

[172andyou]

I wasn't aware that everything about 17th century building practices had been digitized for consumption by the LLMs.

There is a tremendous amount of information available. Including many, many links about how to do restorations and the considerations that have to be taken into account.

 

[DaleB]

Canoes. Dugout canoes. As soon as someone invents a robot to make them.

Oh, heavens no. That would mean using trees, which cannot be allowed.

 

[JOhnH]

I wasn't aware that everything about 17th century building practices had been digitized for consumption by the LLMs.

He didn't say "Everything". He said "Everything known". There is a difference.

 

[SixPapaCharlie]

From time to time I do have the hippie, granola thought that it is certainly interesting as we float on a rock in infinite nothingness, we've created a system such that just simply existing means your contractually obligated to work until you're almost dead. "What did you do with the only gift you were ever given?" "Oh I used it to work for a guy so I could eat until I couldn't physically do it anymore."

It's kinda sad

 

[Half Fast]

From time to time I do have the hippie, granola thought that it is certainly interesting as we float on a rock in infinite nothingness, we've created a system such that just simply existing means your contractually obligated to work until you're almost dead. "What did you do with the only gift you were ever given?" "Oh I used it to work for a guy so I could eat until I couldn't physically do it anymore."

It's kinda sad

And it ain’t nothin’ new, sadly.

17 To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’​

“Cursed is the ground because of you;
through painful toil you will eat food from it
all the days of your life.
18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you,
and you will eat the plants of the field.
19 By the sweat of your brow
you will eat your food
until you return to the ground,
since from it you were taken;
for dust you are
and to dust you will return.”​

 

[GaryM]

He didn't say "Everything". He said "Everything known". There is a difference.

Ok, ‘everything known and digitized’. I didn’t mean to imply that AI isn’t ignorant of most 17th century building practices. You can’t digitize the institutional memory if 17th century builders.

 

[SixPapaCharlie]

And it ain’t nothin’ new, sadly.

;To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife’​

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Wait. So its their fault!!!! I knew it.

 

[bflynn]

From time to time I do have the hippie, granola thought that it is certainly interesting as we float on a rock in infinite nothingness, we've created a system such that just simply existing means your contractually obligated to work until you're almost dead. "What did you do with the only gift you were ever given?" "Oh I used it to work for a guy so I could eat until I couldn't physically do it anymore."

It's kinda sad

As opposed to before, when you had to work every day of your life to find food and secure shelter for your family. It was always a threat that some neanderthal was going to want your cave and take it from you.

Humans have been addicted to food, clothing and shelter long before there were formalized jobs to work at.

 

[Barrett50]

OK, this from the guy who just had a mid-life change of career into something he really loved. Face it - no one alive today goes out into the wild with a club or spear to eat to survive, so he can procreate. That was the ultimate direct regenerative force of labor. Today, and for a few thousand of years we've variegated our own individual labor to trade for food, shelter, clothing, etc.

If one doesn't like the type or amount of labor they do, in almost all civilized societies, there is a minimalist safety net that will allow a human to survive and more with almost zero labor input into the society. We have developed the safety net to a fine art, and spend significant capital expense to see that almost every belly is full and all have a roof over their head, and a decent winter coat and some kind of shoes.

Sure, slavery exists today in tiny pockets of out of the way backwater places. We BKed the Soviet system, and even there a person is relatively free to choose a career or simply a job to earn their daily bread. I keep thinking, 'first world problems'. We're too fat, we're too lazy, we're too bored, we're too tired.

Enter - AI. What few people out there that are working to survive, they are going to be in the same damn bucket next year they are in today. AI isn't going to take away drudgery. It might make a small, even modest dent in drudgery, but it'll still be around, and if the people who have to work don't like it, change, or quit whining.

 

[MackMooney]

Robots Are Building Clay Homes In Texas Using Dirt From the Ground - Slashdot

A startup south of Austin is using robots to build homes out of clay pulled directly from the ground, reports a local news station: The materials are gathered on site, mixed, and placed on a build plate. From there, a robot lowers from above, picks up the clay with a claw, carries it to the...

hardware.slashdot.org

also other day, saw one about humanoid robots doing variable work in factories, directly replacing that hard to replace human work