I don’t think people realize that automation, like everything else, is a field where there is severe diminishing returns on inputs. A few simple programmable logic controllers (PLCs) could limit the number of people needed in a factory by 50%. Adding heavy computing…
power and extremely expensive robotics maybe gets you down another 50%. We’re now at the point, however, where hyper expensive automation suites on cargo ships maybe replaces 2 Filipinos who are working for slave wages.
The economics really just don’t stack up on any of this.
People talking about chat GPT are missing then point as well. Getting a job where you wrote shitty PowerPoints was always part of a middle class welfare package. Saying chat GPT is going to replace you is…
People talking about chat GPT are missing then point as well. Getting a job where you wrote shitty PowerPoints was always part of a middle class welfare package. Saying chat GPT is going to replace you is…
like saying “I’m going to write a program that submits welfare applications and replaces welfare recipients.”
Automation, despite, what everyone online seems to think has slowed down considerably. It was ripping in the 70s and 80s and actually probably went into reverse…
Automation, despite, what everyone online seems to think has slowed down considerably. It was ripping in the 70s and 80s and actually probably went into reverse…
when immense labor markets (china and the eastern block) opened up in 80s and 90s. Labor became much cheaper than increasingly complex capital (ie automation.)
The scariest thing is that with hydrocarbons getting tighter and tighter and collapsing demographics, no one is coming to rescue you; no machine, no Mars space shuttle, no AI, no one. The fear isn’t hyper productive machines replace humans, it’s that production collapses.
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