jimrandomh comments on What jobs are safe in an automated future? - Less Wrong

9 Post author: PuyaSharif 11 January 2012 08:48PM

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Comment author: jimrandomh 12 January 2012 05:20:30AM *  10 points [-]

My question is: What jobs will be the last ones to go, and why?

If your goal, in asking this question, is to plot a strategy that keeps you employed for as long as possible, then you probably ought to backtrack and look at the goals that's meant to serve. There are better ways to ensure long-term financial security, better ways to maintain a sense of purpose, and better ways to keep busy.

Comment author: roystgnr 12 January 2012 04:04:23PM 7 points [-]

better ways to ensure long-term financial security

Such as? Although I admit this may be likely to change in the future, for most of human history the vast majority of the median's individual's wealth has been the net present value of their expected future earnings.

Comment author: PuyaSharif 12 January 2012 12:31:42PM 1 point [-]

My goal was/is to start a discussion around: 1. Strategies today for maximizing probability of being needed in the future. 2 Even more interesting, what tasks are hard/easy to automate and why? 3 The consequences automation will have on global economy. So far, the comments covers a little bit of all.