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The Miserable Lives of Cyborg Truck Drivers
The most frequent rejoinder to all of this is that while the jobs of today may well disappear, others will emerge in their place. After all, that is what has always happened in the past. And yet that isn’t quite true. Eighty per cent of today’s professions existed a century ago, with the number of people employed in the 20 per cent of new occupatio
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Manual labor in our current capitalist society is dehumanizing. Not getting paid enough for your labor to survive is dehumanizing. Not being allowed to organize unions for better work conditions is dehumanizing. There’s nothing inherently dehumanizing about manual labor. That’s not what this post was suggesting. It’s pointing to the fact that AI is... See more
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Just as factory owners of the 19th century dismissed the skills of their workers in favor of profit and productivity, so do the tech leaders of today dismiss human craft in favor of what they believe is “good enough” productivity. It’s telling that in the development of AI, tech companies often use the term “ median human ” to describe the aspirati... See more