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> Instead of replacing crappy jobs and freeing up peoples time to enjoy their life, we’re actually automating enjoyable pursuits.

This feels like the natural outcome of Moravec's paradox[1]. I can imagine a grim future where most intellectually stimulating activities are done by machines and most of the work that's left for humans is building, cleaning, and maintaining the physical infrastructure that keeps these machines running. Basically all the physical grunt work that has proven hard to find a general technological solution for.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox

>>Alexan+(OP)
If humans end up getting expelled from virtual reality back into physical one not forcibly, but by lack of meaningful virtual pursuits... is that really a grim future?

>>Alexan+(OP)
Oh, so there's a term for this -- TIL. I've heard something along these lines. I think AI diagnostics are a good thing, but I expressed worry about the medical field going away to somebody and was unironically told "you can just be emotional support for sick people". Now that's a fulfilling volunteer activity and everyone who has the inclination to do it should, but as a matter of practicality: Does it come with a salary?

We are a long political fight away from people in industries affected by AI not feeling like their livelihoods are under attack. It would be better received, at least for me, if the AI guys would admit that under the system we have they're playing with a big heaping flamethrower in a vast ocean of gasoline.