Paul Krugman
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first heard Nov 2025
last heard 3 Jun
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I have no personal experience of it, but apparently does pretty well.
It does pretty well.
And, you know, the way I've been thinking about it.
So one of the sort of put down remarks that people make about large language models, and I'm not quite sure if it applies fully to everything else, but that it was just souped up autocorrect.
Which is, but the thing is, there were, first of all, you could say that something like agricultural machinery is just souped up guy with a scythe cutting down wheat, which didn't stop it from being hugely disruptive.
I mean, that we basically have, you know, we have fewer crops.
The United States is a major agricultural exporter and we have fewer farmers than we have people playing World of Warcraft.
So a technology can be sort of not all that magical and still have enormous impacts and destroy a lot of traditional jobs.
And in this case, souped up autocorrect, well, even if that's all it is,
but very souped up.
A lot of people's jobs are basically souped up or correct.
And those are, in many cases, jobs that we consider highly skilled.
So a lot of things in middle management, a lot of, I mean, I don't know if there's a way to get this, but things that I've noticed is that translation, translation software is not perfect, but damn good.
And
How many people were displaced by the fact that you don't actually need somebody who speaks Mandarin?
How many, yeah, just a lot of the jobs that we think, we like to imagine, and maybe we can talk about this, we like to imagine that the very highest creativity level stuff can't be automated, although that may come
That may come as a rude shock at some point, but a lot of stuff that's just a few rungs below that can go away.
I think in some ways the safest jobs are the ones that involve manual labor and dealing with the material world.
Right.
Well, I mean, my point of view is that since we don't know which jobs will be lost and we don't really know how to devise policies, honestly, we can do some things here and there, but efforts to deliberately promote the jobs of the future have
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