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Simon Willison | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @36591423 Capitalism demands growth and profit - if a new technology means someone can 10x their workforce to 100x their profitable output, the incentive is for them to hire more people
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Recker | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @4ebb1885 
Only if the market is infinite.

If a, or better, all newspapers through AI can cut their editors down to 20% and produce the same product, they won't invest the saved money in 80% new editors.

Many things will be produced with much less humans when IA really takes off. But it will be a good thing over all, not the worldwide poverty with an unusable workforce.

In some hundred years there will be 5 or 10 hour work weeks. Thanx to AI and robots.
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Simon Willison | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @36591423 "only if the market is infinite" is a very astute observation, thanks for that