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yCombLinks • today at 1:53 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Adapt, sure, but is my life better or worse after adapting? It's a fair question and a fair worry. The goal of most AI companies seems to be to replace some amount of labor with AI. Look how that worked out for our factory workers. They adapted by getting jobs at Walmart and Dollar General, or scraping by in the gig economy.


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win311fwg • today at 3:35 PM

> They adapted by getting jobs at Walmart and Dollar General, or scraping by in the gig economy.

The tech crowd used to say that only the "dumb" ones did that. They said those who were "smart like us" were much more adaptable, learning to code and whatnot to find new, often even better careers. It will be interesting to see if the emperor has clothes.