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A: AI as a risk to the job market
B: giant opportunity for cheap, high quality and abundant consumer products
job market70.0%
abundant consumer products30.0%
10 votes \ 17h left
82 sats \ 6 replies \ @optimism 6h
Neither. I think about whether there's going to be collapse or bailouts.
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oh you know it
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67 sats \ 2 replies \ @optimism 6h
I'm for real torn. I kind of agree with @Cje95 that to date, all actions taken seem to point towards stimulus, not bailout. I cannot imagine the political will to bail out any of the AI companies if they were to mess up after all the benefits already had - and if Goog/BCM are successful in deploying their TPUs outside of the "safety" of Google's environment, not even Nvidia.
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They're gonna argue it's for national security, it'll protect the economy, all the standard arguments. Every crisis since 2008 has been monetized, I don't see why this would be any different, especially with the breathless world-ending narratives that AI companies have been pushing out.
Political will of the people doesn't even matter.
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In that case let it fail tomorrow. It will end populism.
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Is that only the first thought or your general position?
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 6h
Good question.
First thought, but I'd guess also general position when I would randomly hear it today. This is mostly because whenever I hear AI, people most often are talking about the US proprietary stuff that all those politicians are trying to be friends with. With the exception of Google because they own the entire chain, and xAI because you should never bet against Elon, I see some heavy hype in that segment of AI, so this is what I immediately think of when someone utters that combination of words.
However, if we would be talking about the whole range of AI, especially the flavors that come without overlords and shady marketing, I'm actually bullish, and I would be leaning towards abundance, but not really of consumer products, but possibilities.
A year ago, the latter would be my first thought, but the utter nonsense put out by the commercial parties influenced my feelings about the whole.
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I think about the labor force first, because I assume that's what the person is about to start whining about.
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Why do you think that is? Why the gut reaction to negativity instead of positivity?
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For pretty straightforward adaptive reasons, it makes sense for us to be naturally risk averse.
But also, people are constantly drinking from the propaganda firehose and the establishment tends to push back against disruptive new industries.
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5 sats \ 0 replies \ @Sandman 5h
There is a double impact of both negative and positive. The main concern is on job market.
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Creative enablement along with job market disruption
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The "J" curve, a period in time where the job market is in the shitter before the productivity increases are trickle through the economy, darkness before the dawn.
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