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[ACC Entry] Will Automation Lead to Economic Crisis?

Astral Codex Ten Podcast

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Automated Jobs - What Jobs Will Be Automatized?

In terms of hardware, we can expect computational capacity on the order of the human brain in supercomputers in the next five years and in home computers about 25 years after that. All machines can now act in creative ways as well as rational ways tying the two together is still a very open problem. The ability to understand spoken or written language is still at a very primitive level. These problems don't seem insurmountable merely very hard. Eventually all the skills described on this chart will be automatable. While it may not fall within our lifetimes, it does seem to be part of the foreseeable future. It doesn't seem like there are any fundamental physical limitations preventing it from happening.

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