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[–] oddjob 5 points (+5|-0)

I have a hard time seeing waiters and waitresses ever being automated. We already have lots of restaurants without human waiters, their called fast food and not everyone wants to eat fast food. I also think truck drivers are way more likely to get automated than 79%.

[–] revmoo 1 points (+1|-0)

Already happening out west. Fast casual places with high-end food.

I've automated, by my estimate, 5-10 people out of a job in the last two years. I don't feel bad about it at all because the kind of work I automate, is the kind of work nobody should be doing anyway. There is a lot of dumb bullshit paper pushing that people do in all industries that really doesn't benefit society. As more jobs automate away, whole new industries open up. A lot of the raging against automation reminds me of the luddites back in the day. The horseless carriage was heralded as a destroyer of jobs. We all know how that worked out.

[–] oddjob 1 points (+1|-0) Edited

A lot of the raging against automation reminds me of the luddites back in the day. The horseless carriage was heralded as a destroyer of jobs. We all know how that worked out.

They became dumb bullshit paper pushers?

I don't have anything against automating jobs, I just don't think some of those jobs are in as much danger as they think.

[–] Beowulf 4 points (+4|-0)

Whoever made this has no clue what they're talking about.

[–] MirrorMan 1 points (+1|-0)

Seriously. A metric fuckload of legal work can easily be automated because our justice system functions off of precedent.

[–] CDanger 1 points (+1|-0)

Chance of being automated when? Next year? Within the next 200 years? Don't let the "gaussian process classifier" mumbo jumbo fool you, this is all nonsense dressed up as scientific.

[–] das_american 0 points (+0|-0)

As soon as we have artificial general intelligence, which the people developing it say is about 10 years away, then it doesn't matter what job you have. They can do it cheaper, with optimal efficiency, and without mistakes. No more jobs.