Benjamin Todd
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4,140 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2023
last heard 28 May
Benjamin Todd’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So maybe it's like more social skills heavy or like it's a more messy thing or it's like management job, management skills.
And that's probably where that type of person should be focusing first.
If you were like very on the fence, you're like, well, I'm not sure I should go to college or I could learn a trade.
And you're like,
it's like a very borderline case for you, then yeah, I think compared to the past, there's a stronger argument for doing the physical or like, yeah, complex physical skills, which will take a bit longer to automate.
Though, of course, eventually there will be robotics, so it's not.
All of these things are just about some timeframe.
I talk about like riding the wave of the things that are most valuable at the time.
Rather than, again, trying to just like come to some permanent solution.
Yes.
And that's, yeah, that's like a meta skill that's, if pace of change increases, then the skill of like learning quickly and changing path and like the kind of like psychological resilience to do that, those things become more valuable.
Even in many of the good scenarios,
the world could still end up totally alien to us.
And yeah, there's something very sad about that.
And yeah, I think people whose reaction to AI is just pure excitement, that feels very off-base to me.
It is a scary thing we're facing.
It's not that helpful to dwell in the fear.
But that's not to deny that it isn't scary.
This is an insane thing to be happening and we might not be able to handle it.
But then moving from that into, okay, so what can I actually do?
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