Yes and no.. some industries will pay people to hang around and be security blankets for the rest of the employees but the less profitable ones won't have the luxury.
Lawrence, you're on to something here. I see countless numbers of people that "work from home" but seem to have time for going grocery shopping, working out, walking the dog, taking a nap, and other things during the day. In the 1990s, if I wanted to work out, I needed to get up at 4am to be finished by 5:30 and get my butt to the office.
Even in the office, how many people are working, and how many are scrolling on Facebook or Instagram or something else? My kids are shocked when they hear the kinds of things that I accomplished in a week, back when I was in an entry-level job. They think it's impossible because they don't realize that 12 hours each day is a LONG TIME when you're really humping.
I suppose it's better than unemployed people lying on couches all over the place.
Maybe the ancient Egyptians had a good idea: Put the idle people to work on something grand. Let's come up with some kind of project to keep all of the underemployed people busy!
This hits hard. Because it’s true. Everyone is feeling it. We are already living in the performative layer … interviews, jobs, even ambition itself feels like a performance of usefulness. Everything is 10X, but increasingly hollow. The real risk is that we adapt too well to meaninglessness… to conform and forget who we were in the first place.
And it’s always highly contentious to attribute a causal effect. To what extent is this loss of meaning the cause of far-right movements? Or increase in mental health diagnosis? Or is it all because of 2008? Social media? Covid? I worry the same thing will happen with AI automation and it will never be pinned as the root cause of social and political issues we will see 2025-2035
Hi Lawrence I really respect your POV here and think this should be amplified. Not everyone is asking the question of what AI is doing to us? Most discussion has centered around alignment, capabilities, etc …
You need to take into account the competition. Competition within the same industry, then competition between communities, countries, blocks. Keeping people for performative reasons only will put the company out of existence if it has to compete on the basis of productivity or a similar metric. For this performative vision to work one needs a global framework that would impose conditions for such an environment. But, who and why (on the basis of what incentives) would impose such a framework?
I think remote work will come back into fashion once its healing effect on population collapse becomes more widely studied and proven. I for one LOVE that economic equality seems to be an essential ingredient for the species to even want to continue in all 1st World countries.
This hits hard 😢…I’m a 55 yr old accountant
Lobby, lobby hard for human in the loop tax filings
Thanks I hate it
Mass unemployment won’t arrive. There will always be things to do.
Good analysis @law! Small typo here
We have drone piltos
Yes and no.. some industries will pay people to hang around and be security blankets for the rest of the employees but the less profitable ones won't have the luxury.
The only dynamic missing here is the class warfare between neuralinkers and mushybrainers
Lawrence, you're on to something here. I see countless numbers of people that "work from home" but seem to have time for going grocery shopping, working out, walking the dog, taking a nap, and other things during the day. In the 1990s, if I wanted to work out, I needed to get up at 4am to be finished by 5:30 and get my butt to the office.
Even in the office, how many people are working, and how many are scrolling on Facebook or Instagram or something else? My kids are shocked when they hear the kinds of things that I accomplished in a week, back when I was in an entry-level job. They think it's impossible because they don't realize that 12 hours each day is a LONG TIME when you're really humping.
I suppose it's better than unemployed people lying on couches all over the place.
Maybe the ancient Egyptians had a good idea: Put the idle people to work on something grand. Let's come up with some kind of project to keep all of the underemployed people busy!
This hits hard. Because it’s true. Everyone is feeling it. We are already living in the performative layer … interviews, jobs, even ambition itself feels like a performance of usefulness. Everything is 10X, but increasingly hollow. The real risk is that we adapt too well to meaninglessness… to conform and forget who we were in the first place.
And it’s always highly contentious to attribute a causal effect. To what extent is this loss of meaning the cause of far-right movements? Or increase in mental health diagnosis? Or is it all because of 2008? Social media? Covid? I worry the same thing will happen with AI automation and it will never be pinned as the root cause of social and political issues we will see 2025-2035
Hi Lawrence I really respect your POV here and think this should be amplified. Not everyone is asking the question of what AI is doing to us? Most discussion has centered around alignment, capabilities, etc …
Do you have a megaphone?
You need to take into account the competition. Competition within the same industry, then competition between communities, countries, blocks. Keeping people for performative reasons only will put the company out of existence if it has to compete on the basis of productivity or a similar metric. For this performative vision to work one needs a global framework that would impose conditions for such an environment. But, who and why (on the basis of what incentives) would impose such a framework?
No mention of HVAC here. Physical manipulation may be mankind's last stand.
Also, I find this perfectly plausible and awful. Good job?
I think remote work will come back into fashion once its healing effect on population collapse becomes more widely studied and proven. I for one LOVE that economic equality seems to be an essential ingredient for the species to even want to continue in all 1st World countries.