Have you personally known anyone who has tried to get a tech job lately and talked to them about it?
On Fri, Sep 25, 2026 at 7:38 PM Matt Mahoney <[email protected]> wrote: > > AI doesn't take jobs. It automates work, which is not the same thing. > It makes your work easier while making you more productive with higher > pay. Technology makes stuff cheaper, so you have more to spend on > other stuff. That spending creates jobs. The reality is that the > economy is booming and the unemployment rate has remained steady at > 4%. > > People thought that FORTRAN would eliminate programming jobs because > it automated turning mathematical expressions into code. People > thought that AI would eliminate programming jobs because it automated > turning English into code. Neither happened. Instead of fewer jobs, we > got jobs done faster. > > But people don't understand economics and politicians will tell people > what they want to hear. That is why we had communism. > > On Fri, Sep 25, 2026 at 9:46 PM Mark Nuzz <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > It's more complicated than an "either or". We have ourselves > > pretentious people in ivory towers telling people that they're not > > allowed to get help from AI on a headache diagnosis, while their own > > jobs are being eliminated for the "greater good of humanity", while > > the cost savings are not passed onto customers (per Hacker News > > commentary) or even shorter employee workweeks (ref: Meta's CTO). When > > people are treated like this, they're going to vote against the noise. > > > > On Fri, Sep 25, 2026 at 6:35 PM Matt Mahoney <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > As if making it illegal to turn the world into paperclips will stop it > > > from happening. But people are apparently more worried about data centers > > > raising their electric bills. > > > > > > -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] > > > > > > -- > -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T8d5b2f4ea82b5542-M7426e7d128d87d15aa3274d6 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
