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A lot of people don't/didn't set out in life to be a hyper-adaptiver worker who puts 110% into the latest thing they can be the best at all the time. They set out to be an average worker who learns a skill and lives a life focused on things outside of being the maximal worker. For these people it's even less about if an LLM can beat them (which, to be honest, for most all of us is or will be true at least for certain tasks) and more about how much an LLM may upset the life path they were in.

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> A lot of people don't/didn't set out in life to be a hyper-adaptiver worker who puts 110% into the latest thing they can be the best at all the time

This used to be life for 99% of human history. Don't take the past 30 years lifestyle for granted just because we created government, free market or whatever. Human nature is to be a hyper-adaptiver worker who puts 110% into the latest thing they can be the best at all the time otherwise they die.

this is absolutely not true. Human history is not the story of hyper adaptive silicon valley disruptors, in fact your completely backwards. Most of human history growth was enormously slow, and only in the past few decades has it really skyrocketed to the point where people become obsolete this quickly. If you were born in 1008 you could be a blacksmith for the next 600 years at least without too much issue.

Humans never needed to be hyper-adaptive. 80+% of people in the far past were farmers their whole life, just like their parents, and their children, and everyone they associated with. Prior to farming, dumber means of food gathering. You worked your ass off or died but it was never about the latest thing, that's a purely modern invention. Hardly anybody went to "school" or learned a trade, nobody expected job changes every 5 years. You were a dirt poor, uneducated, worn down farmer. The modern invention was the idea we'd have time to be something else (or be a significantly more educated farmer not so concerned with imminent death) and the very recent invention is that you'd need to be multiple something elses over time.

any worn down farmer you are describing as having it easier would change lives with the modern human. They would not complain as much, that's for sure. At least not until they get used to it.

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