VCs Tout AI Replacing All White-Collar Labor
Venture capitalists and engineers flag risks from AI job replacement rhetoric.
BuccoCapital Bloke quotes VCs celebrating an investment TAM that covers all white-collar labor. Nick Dobos questions AI lab marketing departments for pushing similar themes and urges focus on beneficial outcomes rather than doomsday scenarios. Both posts appear in conversation around data center expansion and labor market claims. The packet records the statements as made by the named accounts without independent confirmation of broader effects.
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Hmm maybe VCs should not have gleefully, repeatedly, loudly, celebrated that the “investment TAM for AI is all of white-collar labor”
The anti-datacenter psychosis sweeping through both sides of our national politics might be the worst mass movement I've seen in my lifetime. The magnitude of lies underpinning it, the threat it poses to our economy and civilization, and the sheer scale of its popularity are…
The anti-datacenter movement is literally the most rational response imaginable to an industry whose leaders have publicly said the best case scenario for their product is to get everyone fired. If you can’t see this then your brain is in late stage tech rot.
The anti-datacenter psychosis sweeping through both sides of our national politics might be the worst mass movement I've seen in my lifetime. The magnitude of lies underpinning it, the threat it poses to our economy and civilization, and the sheer scale of its popularity are…
Genuinely wtf are the marketing departments of ai labs are doing? This should be obvious, but SF is in a bubble. Maybe we should focus on good outcomes and not accidentally manifest ourselves into doomsday huh?
The anti-datacenter movement is literally the most rational response imaginable to an industry whose leaders have publicly said the best case scenario for their product is to get everyone fired. If you can’t see this then your brain is in late stage tech rot.…
@Tyler_A_Harper IT HAS NEVER BEEN A PR MOVE. This would be completely obvious to you if you bothered to put the tiniest amount of energy into finding that out, and you should be grateful that many of the people building the machine god have been honest with the public about what…
Still disagree w/ this... AI *is* a Best-Case-Mass-Layoffs-Worst-Cast-Extinction Machine [on the risk side of the ledger! The benefits are also huge]. Companies erred in opposing guardrails that would restrain themselves + then giving off a reckless vibe
One reason I am reflexively skeptical of the AI industry’s claims is that the very people we are supposed to hail as geniuses also completely failed to anticipate that branding their antichrist box the Best-Case-Mass-Layoffs-Worst-Cast-Extinction Machine was a non-savvy PR move.…
