Sam Altman says AI has resulted in net job creation, contradicting his original expectations
e/acc founder Beff Jezos argues human work expands to utilize new intellectual capacity
so far at least, i'm pretty sure AI has been net job-creating. this was not what i expected--although i was much less pessimistic than others, i thought by this level of capability we'd have seen some impact. it is possible this direction keeps going!
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will depue@willdepueai creates economic growth. economic growth creates jobs (more jobs than ai fills), ai creates jobs (until the end) https://twitter.com/sama/status/2076036901824532530
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SW swyx@swyxif you only learned about jevons paradox primarily wrt software demand in the age of agentic engineering, you may not have fully internalized jevons parodox’s impact under the conditions of: - humans who can wield coding agents well* - coding agents breaking containment to all…
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B( Beff (e/acc)@beffjezos@sama @HeyPeterClarke The work we do will keep expanding in scope, scale and complexity to use up the available capacity for intellectual work.
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