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To: SeekAndFind

It seems to me that all those careers are at risk of AI take-over the next 25 to 50 years. That means anybody under 40 needs to think big-picture about the threats to their livelihood in their lifetime. To me, it appears the article is written with maybe a five year horizon at most. Most workers have a career horizon much longer than five years.

Of course, the bigger, longer-range question is “What’s the need for puny humans once AI does everything?” Maybe that’s a 200 year question, or maybe 500 years from now.

But it sure is a fundamentally different question than a person living in 1000 AD pondering what life would be like in 1500 AD. Or a person alive in 1700 pondering what life would be like in 1800. For most of mankind’s existence, the future was almost always more of the past - drudgery, toil, and short lifespan. Then the Industrial Revolution started changing that and the change has been accelerating.


12 posted on 01/30/2025 10:28:48 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (They were the FA-est of times, they were the FO-est of times.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Of course, the bigger, longer-range question is “What’s the need for puny humans once AI does everything?” Maybe that’s a 200 year question, or maybe 500 years from now.


We’ll be free
When their work is done

We’ll be eternally free
Yes, and eternally young

What a beautiful world
This will be

What a glorious time
To be free


17 posted on 01/30/2025 10:32:46 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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