On: 90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI benchmarks

[sedan_baklazhan]

Automating most jobs means extraordinary unemployment.

Which doesn’t play well with “savings for consumers”, because these consumers will be unemployed.

[zeroonetwothree → sedan_baklazhan]

300 years ago 97% of workers were farmers. We automated almost all those jobs away. Is there extraordinary unemployment?

I know, this time it’s different, AI is different, blah blah blah.

[sedan_baklazhan → zeroonetwothree]

Of course changes that happened over course of centuries can’t be compared with larger changes happening (or promised to be happening) in a few years.

[imtringued → sedan_baklazhan]

It didn't happen over the course of centuries. My grandma was a small land holder and grew her own crops until she passed away. None of her children or grandchildren have any relationship to farming.

[sedan_baklazhan → imtringued]

It happened over course of generations, while a huge lot of jobs were created in the cities and/or in the industrial centers (also mostly in cities). In the postindustrial stage, a lot of jobs were created in the service areas. Nothing like that is happening now at all. No jobs are created in any field whatsoever; they are only being destroyed.