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EntireFishing t1_j9y1ge0 wrote

Plumber, electrician, carpet fitter, builder, gardener. All these have been and will be solid trades if you want to run your own business and swap time for money.

Law will still have its place as it is so slow to change and has the system behind it. Medicine and architecture will still have many years left.

Jobs that may die, accounting, IT support, administration, fork lift, taxi driver, lorry driver, actor, sound engineer, retail worker.

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googoobah t1_j9yoi7u wrote

Trades does seem the way to go if you want a stable job. The only other profession I could think of is performer. I don't see people preferring robot bands on stage rather than human ones any time soon.

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phriot t1_j9y37gz wrote

Study whatever lets you figure out if that field is likely to be fully automated quickly, or not. Many roles will be augmented by automation long before they are replaced by it. You want to be able to recognize and use the help, rather than run from it. Use those skills to make money and invest, because capital is likely to do just fine when robots and software come for labor.

Or if you just want to make sure you have "a job" for as long as possible, yeah, go for trades like the other commenter suggested. You'll make good money, and it will take a while for a robot to replace you, longer than an office worker.

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fastinguy11 t1_j9y414y wrote

You premise is flawed, it only makes sense if the singularity is at least 20 years away, if it within 10 years, just do whatever you want as long you have enough money to thrive.

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just-a-dreamer- t1_j9y0mbj wrote

Follow your heart, then follow the money. Look at what you are good at.

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diabeetis t1_j9y8rnv wrote

just do whatever you want. don't need to save for retirement

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play_yr_part t1_j9y91qm wrote

I mean, save a little for retirement in case there's a backlash to AI. But it does feel pointless accumulating a boomer style nest egg.

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diabeetis t1_j9y97jl wrote

your model is different from mine but I would think by the time AI is making enough waves to precipitate a backlash it's already lights out. the weights will be disseminated and the work will continue one way or another

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play_yr_part t1_j9yabbe wrote

I think it's possible that a narrow AI or a proto AGI could fuck something up to the point where there is serious pressure across the world to halt AI progress. For how long that would be I'm not sure and there would no doubt still be clandestine efforts even with a world wide clampdown. Hopefully enough to buy some time and enough to live a life resembling now for a while longer.

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Mountain_Hunter7285 t1_j9ybobi wrote

Your premise is flawed. Singularity either means death of the human species or post scarcity with technology so advanced and so much abundance that your problems won't be the same.

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googoobah t1_j9ynul7 wrote

Yeah, but that would take decades I imagine. I'm wondering what we should do in the mean time.

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R3StoR t1_j9ygs0l wrote

Work involving water because electricity and water don't mix....and robots and computers need electricity for now....

Jokes aside, a lot of rote learning style education and educators are happily going to become obsolete BUT I think there might actually be a renaissance of deeper human lead learning, mentorship and education - working in conjunction with current and near future levels of "AI".

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