• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    An important element of economics that this ignores: if the maximal substitution of human labor with generative machine learning is achieved… who is going to fucking buy or invest in anything? Wages enable consumption. Kill wages == kill consumption == kill your profit margin. Everything ultimately rolls back to the consumer in market economics.

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      2 months ago

      Wrong! LLMs produce useless garbage MUCH faster and for FAR higher costs than a human ever could, all while making middle management insanely horny.

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    2 months ago

    Its like if we replaced horses with a flock of birds. Now theres a bunch of birds eating all the seeds and you keep trying to put horse sized saddles on them

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    2 months ago

    “Why AI will not replace labour”

    Looks inside

    Baseless assertion that some tasks always require humans input

    Every fucking time.

    • frankPodmore@slrpnk.netOP
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      2 months ago

      Baseless assertion that some tasks always require humans input

      It’s really not that; it’s about how spending and employment patterns have changed historically in response to increased automation.

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        2 months ago

        Historical employment patterns which depend on labour being a smaller but irreplaceable slice of a larger pie. 0% of an economy a billion times the current size is still 0$