Re: The decline of blue-collar and farming work

On Tue, 7 Jan 2025, JAB wrote:

The decline of blue-collar and farming work was a major source of
social upheaval that we're still coping with today. A more recent
trend (and one sure to be accelerated by gen AI) is the decline of
office & administrative work, another traditionally middle-class
vocation.
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Doubt it... the effects will be marginal. It might make nonsense job people slightly more effective at generating nonsense, but not enough to upset the apple cart.
If OpenAI actually manages to produce AI, it will become more interesting. I doubt it, and I believe we'll see a new AI winter in 1-2 years or so.