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U steve's avatar

This has to be the AWG understatement of the year..."The economy is discovering that most of its institutions were workarounds for insufficient intelligence."

Darayat Chowdhury's avatar

saw the X notif and repeatedly refreshed Substack because i need Alex to say it out loud at 1.75x speed to understand it 💯

Liz McClanahan's avatar

You are not the only one❣️

Tony Paez's avatar

Great. Thanks.. Thanks

Michael Amicangelo's avatar

The electrician is safe from the robot that can’t hold a wire stripper. They’re not safe from the building that doesn’t need one.

The trades were supposed to be the human redoubt. The threat was never a robot learning your job. It was your job becoming unnecessary.

JJ's avatar
10hEdited

Good point, we are so focused on people's jobs being automated, we have not looked enough at how the environment people work within is going to change, and how that will eliminate many "inefficiency-based" jobs in the near future. In fact, aren't all jobs inefficiency-based jobs? Hmmm.

JJ's avatar
10hEdited

Possible newsletter idea... Autonomous boating

This surprised me, but of course makes perfect sense... the guy's talk appears long winded, but the timestamp I chose skips a lot of the set up.

How AI enables autonomous yachting

https://youtu.be/MsQPI8TSnlg?t=168