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Comment by vrganj | Hacker News Reader

The outside world itself will stop working if we replace labor with LLMs.

Mass unemployment equals riots equals an end to the status quo.

riots lead to hiring more police, so loyalty, prostitution, and sponsored eunuchships will be future career list. Those who are lucky can become a rent-a-pal.

This doesn't seem at all related to the above comment - or anything, for that matter. Nobody is suggesting we "replace labor" with LLMs.

> Nobody is suggesting we "replace labor" with LLMs.

I take it you haven't been listening to what the guys at the AI labs have been saying?

Plus that's what the whole article is about. I'm not sure how you could've missed that?

You could replace every software engineer on the planet with a perfect LLM tomorrow and it would not lead to mass unemployment-triggered riots. If you're talking about software engineering specifically, you're not correct. If you're talking about all labor, you're talking about something unrelated to the article.

To quote the article:

> Take copywriting. It was a profession that took years to master and paid well. This changed slowly as more professionals joined the market, even after the demand spike driven by ecommerce and adtech. Now, LLMs have destroyed the job for the vast majority of professionals.

The job of software engineering is more or less literally to automate every other job. If there are no software engineers it's because everything is or has been automated. If AI isn't capable of that then there's still software engineering to do and your argument collapses.

The article very explicitly discusses the replacement of all knowledge workers. You sure you read it?

> Plus that's what the whole article is about. I'm not sure how you could've missed that?

Even if code typing goes away, a new breed of engineering will take it's place.

Do you normally listen to quacks? You clearly don't believe them. Why are you even paying any attention to it?

The next big revolution probably involves burning down datacenters.

Sounds like a knowledge worker task description on figuring out how to stop the masses from burning down datacenters.

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