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Your suggestion to someone whose multi-decade career was ended by AI is to play career whack-a-mole, try to guess which careers won't be next to be killed off, go back to school for several years, and pray?


Yes.

Telephone operators. Typing pools. Grooms. TV repair technicians. Weavers

To this list we may be adding law clerks. Drafters. Copy writers.

This is an ancient process. Some societies and cultures cope and maintain a civil society, some don't

So do not play "whack'a'mole", campaign for social change


I guess we should get rid of bulldozers and give more people shovels.

While you're at it, take computers always from people. They automate way too much stuff.

Btw, I am in one of those careers that people think is at the risk of being automated away. I don't really care about it. If I become obsolete, maybe my skills were not that useful. I'll try working in something else.

And if all jobs are automated away, I'll just go starve with the rest of the peasantry. The last to starve will be the first to suffocate.




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