2024 feels like it reshaped so much about how we, the cogs and gears of the creative economy, spend our days — making me wonder how our work might evolve next.
I wonder how long it would take though - in chess a combination of human and AI was more powerful then just AI or just human for something like 20 years. Right now human just ruins AI strategy)
I think we will definitely encounter the problem of people uselessness in economy during our life times. But nobody knows for sure what will happen, so I totally agree with your adaptation and generalization strategy. This should cover us for the next few years and may be even a lifetime.
On a bit of a side note - for me I've noticed that it pains me to be average at everything so one of the things I did is to chose a few areas where I would build mastery no matter what. These areas might not be economically viable but not everything in life should be :) For example I chose running just for joy of growth and focus and it helps me feel somewhat invincible in the face of AI.
I do agree that a lot of things people do today are even less complex than chess and could potentially be automated soon. But as with industry automation before, I think this is a net positive thing for all of us today. It wasn’t a fun job to operate a conveyor, as it’s not the one to process legal paperwork, nor to spend hours debugging what line of JS code crashes your app. Also, this type of automation doesn’t reduce the amount of goods we produce, so it’s not about loosing jobs and money, it’s about having less meaningless work in our 24 hours.
I think the future is somewhere in between steady progress in the complexity of things we do and ‘homo ludens’ — as with your example with running, often the real meaning and joy is in the process.
brilliant! you should share your ideas more often))
I wonder how long it would take though - in chess a combination of human and AI was more powerful then just AI or just human for something like 20 years. Right now human just ruins AI strategy)
I think we will definitely encounter the problem of people uselessness in economy during our life times. But nobody knows for sure what will happen, so I totally agree with your adaptation and generalization strategy. This should cover us for the next few years and may be even a lifetime.
On a bit of a side note - for me I've noticed that it pains me to be average at everything so one of the things I did is to chose a few areas where I would build mastery no matter what. These areas might not be economically viable but not everything in life should be :) For example I chose running just for joy of growth and focus and it helps me feel somewhat invincible in the face of AI.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts!
I do agree that a lot of things people do today are even less complex than chess and could potentially be automated soon. But as with industry automation before, I think this is a net positive thing for all of us today. It wasn’t a fun job to operate a conveyor, as it’s not the one to process legal paperwork, nor to spend hours debugging what line of JS code crashes your app. Also, this type of automation doesn’t reduce the amount of goods we produce, so it’s not about loosing jobs and money, it’s about having less meaningless work in our 24 hours.
I think the future is somewhere in between steady progress in the complexity of things we do and ‘homo ludens’ — as with your example with running, often the real meaning and joy is in the process.