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Last robot proof job is a fish buying guy? Definitely not. It seems that way because it relies on their vendors to be humans that you need to create personal relations in order for them to give you their best stock. Take those oldies out, make the fish stay fresh in water tanks and slaughter them just before delivery, all done automatically and poof, the job is done by robots. I predict this can be done with current tech nevertheless; automatic fisheries, automatic ships to catch fish, automatic feeding the tanks, automatic delivery.

You wanna know what is the ultimate robot-proof job? Be a politician. That job will never be handled by a robot. Or if that will happen then Terminator style world upon us.

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I thought your comment would be a good GPT2 prompt so I tried it. First result:

The fish will have to be delivered right at the time they are needed, since our current technology is geared towards delivering fish at the beginning and then moving on to the next species. At that time, they will have to be fed at the right time, but you don't have any idea how long you might wait or how much time you'll have, and who could possibly get the fish if someone decided to eat the fish anyway.

You will end up with something like this:

In this case, you can even have an artificially intelligent fish, for example, that will be bred so it is much easier to keep the fish alive, but it won't do any better in terms of efficiency of operation. It will simply end up doing less work. A fish with artificial intelligence will just get tired and lose its ability to perform their job.

Another concept is that you could simply use roboticized boats that operate like a large farm or factory, with lots of fish and then moving animals into the water as needed.

Although politicians themselves will probably stay human for the foreseeable future, they have already outsourced their speechwriting and campaign strategizing. The robot ruler won't be an actual robot, it will be a human who uses machines to write their speeches and prioritize their campaign movements.

I agree. In the future will be who is better to write your speech, to the point I can see a politician churning e-mails or what the future will use for comms, from multiple sources, just like offers or like an auction is today.

This seems both highly plausible and deeply chilling. We already saw what happened with electronic voting.

I think it's already chilling that speeches are written by speechwriters who are carefully optimizing for the same things that the machines would optimize for.

So you just listed off several new industries required to replace this guy with a machine.

Yup. Technically all of them can be done by robots. The only reason is they are not is because economics. As long as a job is more expensive by a robot than a human will stay in hands of humans. Once that threshold is passed automation takes over.

But, like I said, while the politics can be done by AI, will never fall in those hands. That's the ultimate robot-proof job. In any country. Regardless of the regime.

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