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>>fnbr+(OP)
>the company will succeed at developing AI systems that make most human labor obsolete.

Hmmmn. Most of the humans where I work do things physically with their hands. I don't see what AI will achieve in their area.

Can AI paint the walls in my house, fix the boiler and swap out the rotten windows? If so I think a subscription to chat GPT is very reasonably priced!

>>jimnot+mX
Obviously if your job requires blue-collar style manual labor, no it's likely not going to be replaced anytime soon.

But if your job is mostly sitting at a computer, I would be a bit worried.

>>window+sZ
Given the low quality of relationships between customers and blue-collared jobs, i.e. ever tried to get a job done by a plumber or a painter, if you don’t know how to do their job you are practically assured they will do something in your back that will fall off in 2 years, for the price of 2x your daily rate as a software engineer (when they don’t straight up send a paperless immigrant which makes you culprit of participation to unlawful employment scheme if it is discovered), well…

I’d say there is a lot of available money in replacing blue collared jobs with AI-powered robots. Even if they do crap, it’s still better quality that contractors.

>>eastbo+P01
Shoddy contractors can then give you a shoddy service with a shoddy robot.

Quality contractors will still be around, but everyone will try and beat them down on price because they care about that more than quality. The good contractors won't be able to make any money because of this and will leave the trade....just like now, just like I did

>>jimnot+2x1
The argument “pay more to get better quality” would be valid if, indeed, paying more meant better quality.

Unfortunately, it’s something I’ve often done, either as a 30% raise for my employees or giving a tip to a contractor when I knew I’d take them again or taking the most expensive one.

EACH time the work was much worse off after the raise. The sad truth of humans is that you gotta keep them begging to extract their best work, and no true reward is possible.