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i think this is mixing correlation and causation

"They" figured out that it's a lot easier to hillclimb AI on verifiable digital tasks, and it just so happened that white collar jobs tend to pay more

Ai will decimate customer support jobs but those are not considered highly paid

If robotics continue to progress, we'll have all the robots to do our dishes and clean our bathrooms as you wish

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I spend maybe 12h a year cleaning the bathroom and the dishwasher is a robot. How is that a market to keep dozens of harmonic drives operational. Unless there is some "post scarcity" there is no way it will be common place.

hence the investment into general purpose robots that can do any humanoid shaped task, the market of which is all physical labour

the same robot that cleans your bathroom can also wash your dishes, fold your clothes, defend your home, fix your gutters, etc

(the bottleneck of which is the brain, aka software)

"Robots to defend your home"? I obviously live in a very privileged place.

Maybe the burglary jobs will be taken by robots as well.

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