Palantir CEO says AI will make Democrat women poor and make male laborers rich

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I really don't agree with the idea that the humanities will suffer more than manual laborers and tradesman. Where in the world do you get this idea from? Anything black and white, with clear right and wrong, can be more easily replaced by AI and robotics. This includes many STEM fields but also trades, maybe with the exception of highly artistic trades (maybe some unique woodworking, for example). It will be the fields that are more nuanced, that make full use of our humanity, that can survive. And humanities is the study of what makes us human. How can AI do that, when it is not human? So yes, i still tend to see it as innovation will free us from grinding daily labor to focus on artistic, "high" pursuits. Not that I think this is a great world because not everyone is capable of high pursuits and most humans who have ever lived have made a living based off grinding work, but I just think this scenario is more likely than the one with humans doing trades.

I think what he is saying is that white collar office work is going to go the way of the dinosaur. The vast majority of jobs in the US are service/white collar jobs that people with college degrees do. They are under significant threat due to AI automation. The only jobs left will be those requiring human labor, like the trades etc. Even fields like medicine, law, pharmacy,.....education focused professions are all going to be automated away.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think he is just hallucinating.
He is right about one thing though, someone who actually does something productive will have more economic power than some academia loon exploring gender theories or oppression of minorities.

So edgy! There's no value to scientific and academic research especially if it benefits women and minorities! /s

You would think you'd be embarrassed to be so dumb.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I really don't agree with the idea that the humanities will suffer more than manual laborers and tradesman. Where in the world do you get this idea from? Anything black and white, with clear right and wrong, can be more easily replaced by AI and robotics. This includes many STEM fields but also trades, maybe with the exception of highly artistic trades (maybe some unique woodworking, for example). It will be the fields that are more nuanced, that make full use of our humanity, that can survive. And humanities is the study of what makes us human. How can AI do that, when it is not human? So yes, i still tend to see it as innovation will free us from grinding daily labor to focus on artistic, "high" pursuits. Not that I think this is a great world because not everyone is capable of high pursuits and most humans who have ever lived have made a living based off grinding work, but I just think this scenario is more likely than the one with humans doing trades.

I think what he is saying is that white collar office work is going to go the way of the dinosaur. The vast majority of jobs in the US are service/white collar jobs that people with college degrees do. They are under significant threat due to AI automation. The only jobs left will be those requiring human labor, like the trades etc. Even fields like medicine, law, pharmacy,.....education focused professions are all going to be automated away.

There’s no evidence of this.

[Anonymous]

Yes, I have heard the hype guys about how awesome and seamless AI is, and how it is replacing everything right away.

I haven't seen it. I do see a lot of loud braying trying to drive up stock prices and glaze investors, though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think he is just hallucinating.
He is right about one thing though, someone who actually does something productive will have more economic power than some academia loon exploring gender theories or oppression of minorities.

There is a certain hierarchy, but referring to people that learn and teach things about humanity as “loons” certainly tells us a lot about you.

I didn’t say a word about people that “teach and learn things about humanity” like physicists, historians, even art critics. Just some scholars of the looney areas of knowledge

[Anonymous]

Such a narrow view of people! He is a moron.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think he is just hallucinating.
He is right about one thing though, someone who actually does something productive will have more economic power than some academia loon exploring gender theories or oppression of minorities.

So edgy! There's no value to scientific and academic research especially if it benefits women and minorities! /s

You would think you'd be embarrassed to be so dumb.

It’s all crock and as money and jobs and benefits in general dry up, it will be recognized as such.
It is fluff for the rich societies.
We are about to get rid of the fluff.
Don’t you see the trend?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Yes, I have heard the hype guys about how awesome and seamless AI is, and how it is replacing everything right away.

I haven't seen it. I do see a lot of loud braying trying to drive up stock prices and glaze investors, though.

You have to remember AI is in its infancy. This is version 1. Technology evolves rapidly. Look at the first gen iPod in like the year 2000. It was a behemoth with only like 5 gb memory. In 10 years it got reduced to the iPod nano, and 15 years later iPods were basically obsolete. 10 years from now AI is going to be crazy. It is already starting to outcompete radiologists, for example, at detecting cancer from imaging. Yes, AI hallucinate, but if you are going to be in for a rude awakening if you don't think it will rapidly improve in as little as 10 years. White collar workers are screwed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think he is just hallucinating.
He is right about one thing though, someone who actually does something productive will have more economic power than some academia loon exploring gender theories or oppression of minorities.

It’s funny. Technology was supposed to free humans to pursue higher pursuits like humanities, arts, and research. Now it turns out that AI is taking those roles, and relegating humans to manual labor. And CEO’s call this progress.

Well it’s just the beginning. Eventually UBI will be figured out and who knows what comes next, maybe all the best minds will flock to gender studies.
However I think most people will spend their days at cheap amusement parks or online

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think he is just hallucinating.
He is right about one thing though, someone who actually does something productive will have more economic power than some academia loon exploring gender theories or oppression of minorities.

So edgy! There's no value to scientific and academic research especially if it benefits women and minorities! /s

You would think you'd be embarrassed to be so dumb.

It’s all crock and as money and jobs and benefits in general dry up, it will be recognized as such.
It is fluff for the rich societies.
We are about to get rid of the fluff.
Don’t you see the trend?

No. Show us where this trend is demonstrated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think he is just hallucinating.
He is right about one thing though, someone who actually does something productive will have more economic power than some academia loon exploring gender theories or oppression of minorities.

There is a certain hierarchy, but referring to people that learn and teach things about humanity as “loons” certainly tells us a lot about you.

DP. “Loon” might be an unnecessary dig, but I agree those humanities people are in trouble. The thing is, the money that ever gave those people well paying jobs in the first place was artificial, and it now it is gone.
There is someone I know, unemployed for a year, who I was trying to help with a referral. I saw her LinkedIn and literally the first thing on there was the “she/her” pronouns and then all the other woke stuff. This is a middle aged NoVA white woman. I want to tell her, take those out, it’s not 2022 anymore. You need to focus on your transferable skills and frame yourself differently.

I majored in something even more worthless on the job market than humanities, which now I think was better than humanities because I was forced to pivot and gain skills early on and I’m doing really well now.

I am the loons PP. yes that’s what I mean. When real life hits you on the head there’s no place for fluff and these people will find it out soon enough.
Don’t people see the trend? Rn all the “refugees” who would be a burden on the benefit system if UBI was instituted are being pushed out. Next will be the people taken off Medicaid and food stamps for not working, i e homeless and with “invisible disabilities” aka those who can’t hold a job but aren’t officially disabled. This is done to reduce the base of future UBI recipients.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Yes, I have heard the hype guys about how awesome and seamless AI is, and how it is replacing everything right away.

I haven't seen it. I do see a lot of loud braying trying to drive up stock prices and glaze investors, though.

You have to remember AI is in its infancy. This is version 1. Technology evolves rapidly. Look at the first gen iPod in like the year 2000. It was a behemoth with only like 5 gb memory. In 10 years it got reduced to the iPod nano, and 15 years later iPods were basically obsolete. 10 years from now AI is going to be crazy. It is already starting to outcompete radiologists, for example, at detecting cancer from imaging. Yes, AI hallucinate, but if you are going to be in for a rude awakening if you don't think it will rapidly improve in as little as 10 years. White collar workers are screwed.

And look at how little has changed on smart phones since 2010. Can you even think of a meaningful thing your phone does now that it couldn’t in 2016? I bet you can remember the difference between 2016 and 2006, though.

Individual technologies do not advance exponentially forever. We went from the Manhattan Project to nuclear power plants in 10 years, but 75 years after that, nuclear power generation still hasn’t advanced much. AI is already plateauing in many respects.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Yes, I have heard the hype guys about how awesome and seamless AI is, and how it is replacing everything right away.

I haven't seen it. I do see a lot of loud braying trying to drive up stock prices and glaze investors, though.

You have to remember AI is in its infancy. This is version 1. Technology evolves rapidly. Look at the first gen iPod in like the year 2000. It was a behemoth with only like 5 gb memory. In 10 years it got reduced to the iPod nano, and 15 years later iPods were basically obsolete. 10 years from now AI is going to be crazy. It is already starting to outcompete radiologists, for example, at detecting cancer from imaging. Yes, AI hallucinate, but if you are going to be in for a rude awakening if you don't think it will rapidly improve in as little as 10 years. White collar workers are screwed.

And look at how little has changed on smart phones since 2010. Can you even think of a meaningful thing your phone does now that it couldn’t in 2016? I bet you can remember the difference between 2016 and 2006, though.

Individual technologies do not advance exponentially forever. We went from the Manhattan Project to nuclear power plants in 10 years, but 75 years after that, nuclear power generation still hasn’t advanced much. AI is already plateauing in many respects.

Are you kidding? Modern phones have way more memory and speed compared to those in 2010, plus way more powerful cameras. The cameras now are so powerful in phones that they've almost killed the photography industry. 95% of people dont even buy stand alone cameras anymore unless they are harcore hobbyists.

You're right tech may not exponentially improve for forever, but where you are wrong is that AI hasn't even hit the exponential part of the curve yet. This is the rudimentary crude version. The AI we have now is more akin to the giant crappy 1980s and 1990s cellphones you had to plug into a cigarette lighter in the car. We aren't anywhere near having AI equivalent to the modern day smart phone yet in terms of rapidiilty in improvements.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
You're right tech may not exponentially improve for forever, but where you are wrong is that AI hasn't even hit the exponential part of the curve yet. This is the rudimentary crude version. The AI we have now is more akin to the giant crappy 1980s and 1990s cellphones you had to plug into a cigarette lighter in the car. We aren't anywhere near having AI equivalent to the modern day smart phone yet in terms of rapidiilty in improvements.

Prove it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think he is just hallucinating.
He is right about one thing though, someone who actually does something productive will have more economic power than some academia loon exploring gender theories or oppression of minorities.

So edgy! There's no value to scientific and academic research especially if it benefits women and minorities! /s

You would think you'd be embarrassed to be so dumb.

It’s all crock and as money and jobs and benefits in general dry up, it will be recognized as such.
It is fluff for the rich societies.
We are about to get rid of the fluff.
Don’t you see the trend?

You're away that life can be about more than productivity and the pursuit of money, right? What you call "fluff" is the actual life part of life. And we were able to dedicate time and resources to it specifically because of the prosperity previous generations worked hard to give us.