In the debate of whether or not AI will create massive job losses, people seem too focused on past events. Optimists point to the previous industrial revolutions as examples of major economic changes that in the end turned out okay for job sustainability.
But I rarely see people point to one blatant fact: Unlike previous technological advancements, AI isn't industry disruption. It's competency disruption.
Most jobs today consist of repetitive, specific tasks that require average human competence. A.I is only really good at performing specific tasks.
When AI optimists are faced with this proposition, they parry with the notion that in time, we will create new jobs to replace those lost to A.I. But that notion ignores one major problem that prevents anyone from creating such jobs: The IQ gap.
Love it or hate it, IQ is one of the most reliable tests we have on competency. A.I threatens to take not just the existing jobs for people with average IQs, but AI can take every possible job an average person will be able to perform.
The worrying part is that IQ is nigh impossible increase in a major way, and research points to it having a strong connection to genetics. What this means is that no matter how great the education system, most people aren't able to become intelligent enough to get a job in the upcoming future.
TL;DR AI will take the jobs that most people are competent enough to do, leaving only the most intelligent in society to take jobs. The IQ gap will be what separates the working from the non-working, the rich from the poor, the free from the enslaved.
most human are not just worthless, they are malicious there is a reason why smart people want to move away from humans I can't wait to see the absolute misery and death that is coming
Ian Torres
> rich > working Pick one
Samuel Gomez
and how will you be automating plumber, hvac, electrician etc?
actually the only ones who are fucked are 100-120 who think their accounting degrees will save them
Jayden Campbell
High iq != competency without drive, and with enough ambition and drive you can work your way up with lower than satisfactory iq
Owen Ramirez
People under 120 IQ will shout out "UBI!" People over 120 will just keep quiet because they know the only solution is massive culling, why keep worthless masses of flesh around? >hurr durr they need consumers for their products! So asset owners will pay taxes, to fund idiots, so the idiots can buy their stuff? Why not just keep the money and cut out the middleman (ie. idiots)?
The only thing the will REALLY happen is that making consumer good for retards will cease to be profitable, so an avenue to riches will be closed, but another one will open >or matter-of-fact is already open, but only people with >120IQ can see it
Tyler Bell
Capitalism is built on the value of people's labor. When only a few are intelligent enough to work, they will be highly compensated and sought after.
Cameron Nguyen
cat sized drones those drones are just RC drones and eyes, what drives them in the overmind each small drone is effectively a hand
Lincoln Ward
This is true for entrepreneurship and lotsa cool stuff. But it's not true for things like creativity, sociability, likeability.
In todays society sure, ambition is an important factor of success. But ambition and hard work won't make you see more complex patterns. It won't make you a world class athlete, and it won't make an uncreative person creative.
Jobs in the future will be for people who can create. Ambition isn't enough here.
Levi Moore
>Capitalism is built on the value of people's labor Yeah... nah
