Letter to the AI Doomers and Those That Fantasize About The End of The Programmer

theres a lot of people at risk of having to learn new things. but maybe the problem is that all of the busy work to keep the bureaucracies running has actually prevented people from finding meaning and more valuable contributions that will be realized. i mean many will play victim and resist thinking in a new way — but thats a human problem, not an AI problem.

the opportunity cost of filling out forms and passing the form to someone else to fill out a form to pass to someone else is actually quite deadly high for all the players. Maybe freeing them up to think about how to help people and become useful vs. busy will be a boon for value interchange in a dynamic economy.

its true, you’re getting paid and employed to be useful. if what you’re doing isn’t useful anymore, you won’t be paid or employed. the world is full of problems to be solved. those problems may not be what you were trained to help or solve for. but i guarantee the problemset is large enough that there will be problems that you are uniquely qualified to help solve for.

don’t let the scaremongers shackle you with a scarcity mindset.

don’t let chip salesmen convince you that all you need is more chips.