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Invisible Productivity Gains from Automation Reshaping Employment
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The massive productivity improvements from automation (and resulting changes in employment) that you don’t see, but on which the modern world depends. From Conway’s “The Material World”
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Automation Prioritizes Profit Over People and Planet
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Every job that can be automated or replaced will be where GDP or productivity with and shareholder value is prioritized. Period. When have you heard the phrase, “we can save money and time with X job done with AI but we care more about people and planet?”
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X Risk Community Mobilizes Against AI Deepfakes and Job Displacement
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“X risk community” has adapted to this by telling the normies to sign petitions against AI doing deepfake porn and making everybody unemployed
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Defining AGI: Surpassing Humans in Economically Valuable Tasks
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The def I'm familiar with is: AGI = "an autonomous system that surpasses human in most economically valuable tasks." For "economically valuable tasks" I like to look at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics index of occupations: https://
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Scale AI Remotasks Access Blocked Across Multiple African Countries
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Update: This is worse than I thought. Workers in Nigeria, Rwanda, and South Africa are also reporting that they are being blocked from the website or cannot create an account. It's possible that Scale AI suspended Remotasks far beyond just Kenya.
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Human Expertise Remains Valuable Under AGI Compute Constraints
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Worthwhile economic argument about why human intellectual labor will be valuable even if we achieve AGI: As long as AGI compute is limited (& it will be under any reasonable scenario), it may be cheaper to use human experts in their area of expertise, saving AGI for other work.
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Bernie Sanders Proposes Four-Day Work Week Amid AI Automation
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Bernie Sanders proposed a bill establishing a four-day work week in the U.S. with no loss of pay, citing productivity gains from AI and automation.
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Coding Skills No Longer Shield Against Automation
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The days when "learning to code" offered protection from automation are coming to a close. https://t.co/n7p6oyuVn4
— Martin Ford (@MFordFuture) 17 mars 2024The days when "learning to code" offered protection from automation are coming to a close.
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Generative AI Not Making Humans Obsolete Media Narrative
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Humans are not being made obsolete by generative AI. This is a boogeyman that has been successfully created by parts of the media, and I suppose that in a well intentioned attempt to create awareness for X risk, the X risk community may have contributed to this