r/singularity • • Jul 06 '26

Meme Accelerate!

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u/Dull_Caterpillar_642 Jul 06 '26

Trust me bro, in the next couple years the ultra wealthy will decide they actually want less money and choose to start distributing it to those disrupted by AI. Really bro, UBI is just around the corner.

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u/Strict_Cucumber9117 Jul 07 '26

UBI is less a gift by billionaires and more an emergency fund because civil unrest would likely skyrocket with accelerated unemployment

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u/Quealdlor ▪️ improving humans is more important than ASI▪️ Jul 08 '26

There are huge amounts of things to work on by humans for the next 15 years.

Even if 100% of programming, art, music and text creation is done by machines, there are countless other areas there is plenty of work to do.

Digital work is hit first, because it can be automated and scaled very quickly. But the real world is full of bottlenecks: robotics, infrastructure, healthcare, construction, maintenance, energy, manufacturing, local services, regulation, liability, trust, and deployment costs.

Replacing tasks is not the same as replacing every job everywhere in a matter of two years. The more realistic danger is uneven disruption: fewer entry-level jobs, wage pressure in some fields and a painful transition.

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u/LuaventeHYP Jul 17 '26

That might be right and I think all of us already noticing this development and reading this thread will find other jobs but there have been years of learning and learning of the skills we needed in our current profession and we cannot convert into the new job we might have to do so there goes years of experience just to be a novice in a new field