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I don't know, I get more work done now in a few hours than I used to in a day, so maybe the working week should be shrunk, that would solve things. The solution seems pretty easy - but then I'm not in the US.

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This would be a largely positive solution for humanity, as long as AI remains "just an assistant". I don't think that we are heading that way. It's possible that, at some point, when the time you save becomes comparable to your full working week, your employer (or your clients, if you are self-employed) will discover that you are just a proxy between them and prompting directly the AI. Of course, if your job involves physical labour or requires physical presence or taking legal responsibility for something, you'll be fine for a bit longer (well, comparatively fine in a society plagued by widespread unemployment and social unrest).

The managers you have must be startlingly different from my experience.

Owner: Can you make the box red?

claude: sure

Owner: no not that box, the green one

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Apart from this, how would things work in our current capitalist society when everything costs very little, all the scarcity drivers disappear. Things will change no doubt but not in the way everyone's scared of, I'm sure. It's going to be an interesting ride. Personally I think smarts are going to be needed even more to figure out what these ai's are saying, I think everyone really underestimates how little these skills exist

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