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I'm in tech but I've got a manual trade I could fall back on. Unless robotics takes that from me too.
To be honest I think our only option will be to disengage from the economy. Governments won't have the coin for UBI or much else cos all of it is flowing up to the billionaires and I doubt there are many that properly pay tax.
By letting all the copper thieves know where they can find a shitton of copper.
Don’t fall for the propaganda, AI can not execute real world technical tasks at a level that is acceptable. It is good for code, creative thinking or literary but tasks which require experience, real life human interactions, it is just not ready yet.
it is lagging 10-15 years of application development and even then it is only going to be able to compete with traditional execution.
If that worries you that much, yes. Retrain as an electrician, plumber or dressmaker.
I wouldn't bet that physical robotics will lag behind for long if AI does get to the point where it takes most knowledge jobs. Automating software development has turned out to be both easier and more profitable than automating plumbing, but that doesn't mean no one is ever going to automate plumbing. So as a software developer, I'm earning and investing money while I still can, and I'm doing the things on my bucket list in case we get the worst-case scenario. I think that in the long term, the outcome in which I still need money but have no way of earning it is less likely than either the "good end" or the "bad end" in which no one needs money anymore, so sometimes I feel silly saving up money I think I will probably never spend, but better safer than sorrier.
Your worst-case-scenario framing makes the question redundant.
You’re essentially asking: ‘Let’s imagine that something really bad is going to happen. Is it worth preparing for it?’
"Are you living in the real world?"
"Do you have a comrade?"
"Do you have a plan?"
Me: 