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akramachamareitoday at 1:08 AM2 repliesview on HN

I think, like other disruptive inventions of the past, there will be pain for many, but it will pass. Society will grow and adapt. There's some statistic somewhere I will paraphrase and/or botch that goes like: 90% of the jobs people have today didn't exist 50 years ago. I think no one can imagine what possible opportunities will manifest in the future. It's a lot easier to imagine everything that might go wrong because we evolved to see a sabertooth in the rustling leaves.


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throwaway78297today at 4:25 AM

> I think, like other disruptive inventions of the past, there will be pain for many, but it will pass

I agree. We can only hope that it'll be folks like Sam Altman who'll be feeling the pain, and not the 99%.

leptonstoday at 3:39 AM

>90% of the jobs people have today didn't exist 50 years ago.

We also have 100% more people on the planet than we did 50 years ago.