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verbiricha · 20h
if LLMs are a force multiplier, the reasonable thing to do is to work less hours and spend more time doing the things that bring joy to you and those around you. more quality time with your son & wife...
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A strategic inflection point will also change how business is done fundamentally. It will deeply affect competition, suppliers, complementors, customers, new competitors and new way of doing things.

It will probably mean the opposite, which is to work harder to secure a spot in the new world.
verbiricha · 20h
why be a cog in the machine and wageslave when you can collect those UBI checks? who benefits?
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Abstraction probably always has this effect.

'Civilization is an enormous device for economizing on knowledge. The time and effort (including costly mistakes) necessary to acquire knowledge are minimized through specialization, which is to say through drastic limitations on the amount of duplication of knowledge among the members of society.

The huge costs saved by not having to duplicate given knowledge and experience widely through the population makes possible the higher development of that knowledge among the various subsets of people in the respective specialties.'

Sowell, Thomas. Knowledge And Decisions (pp. 7-8).