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Rob Hugh's avatar

I am not sure that LLMs replace highly skilled work. My experience of using them is the exact opposite, they replace the need for boring repetitive tasks. They are very good at that, they are very bad at problem solving. It is the junior employees who need to be concerned about their jobs since LLMs make their senior colleagues more productive. Any company thinking it can fire it's highly skilled workers and replace them with AI and a low skilled labour force, will probably not be a company for long.

People will need to learn how to use LLMs. That's the future. Just like you need to learn to drive, or use a washing machine, or even read. Will it erode some skills ? Yes. Just like nobody can remember a phone number these days because it's stored in your phone. Is that a bad thing ? It is if you lose your phone. But the benefits have been enormous. Technology changes the world, some people like it, some people don't, but since the day we discovered fire we have continued to invent. It's what we do best.

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lathechuck's avatar

I think that one flaw in the "oppression forever" idea in 1984 is the apparent lack of succession processes in the Inner Party. Rulers eventually age out. If they stay on too long (as Joe Biden), they leave a leadership vacuum that allows revolutionary change to spring up. North Korea seems to have found a way for a family dynasty to persist, but North Korea is a small country, not an Empire, and three generations is not "forever".

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