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[spike at rainier66.com]

> On Behalf Of Kelly Anderson via extropy-chat

>> >… by 2029 AI will probably be pretty unpopular with the general public…

spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

>> Why do you think that?  The comment is worth exploring.

>...Spike, virtually every informed actor believes things for the average Joe are going to get worse from AI before it gets better for everyone...

Ja.  It is clearly a great disrupter, the biggest we have ever seen. 

This is a story which hits close to home.  This professor is known to my son, who says he does everything he can think of to help students get an A.  This CS10 is an easy course.  The students have been using AI to write the code and do their homework, then couldn't pass the exams: 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/berkeley-cs-courses-seeing-failing-154656706.html

>...AI will take jobs before it is ready to provide Universal Basic Services for everyone...

Roger that.  I don't see that AI will provide basic services, except for perhaps doing your taxes and giving really good medical advice.  On this last part, I have been using it.  Doximity is a good one, but there are others.

>... But the average white collar paper pusher is cooked...

Ja.  You should work with the code generating AIs.  Those things blow my mind.

>...I suspect I'm included, even though I have a nice bit of capital investment in woodworking tools that might see me through the canyon...

Best wishes sir.  I know plumbing and electrician work, although I am not licensed in either.

>...Plenty of political hay will be harvested at AI's expense by the next presidential election cycle. I don't know if Trump is going to harvest that hay...

Kelly are you unfamiliar with the 22nd amendment?

>... significantly threatens our Soma (delivered via the internet)...

Do explain please?  I google on Soma:

https://www.soma.com/store?sem=br&network=s&campaign=Soma_BI_BR_Core_Exact&device=c&ogmap=MP-SEM%7CMP-B%7CBING%7CSTAND%7CMULTI%7CSITEWIDE%7C%7C%7C%7C370605863%7C1178677388055094%7Csoma&prdid=&network=s&msclkid=d7bea848626d18375279c26f233072bf

After about four hours of watching ads scroll by...

>... I'm afraid it's going to take a while to get off the "jobs are life"
bandwagon everyone is currently on.

-Kelly______________________________________________

Sure will. There are no simple answers.

spike