What does „vocational“ in this context mean? Manual labour?
CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant
Submitted 2 months ago by themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to technology@lemmy.world
https://futurism.com/future-society/palantir-ai-labor-hands
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dukemirage@lemmy.world 2 months ago
CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
He’s referring to skilled trades like electrical, plumbing, carpentry etc.
foodandart@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
More basic than that.
I’ve been in the Trades since 1980 and for the last 35 years, homes have been built - esp. by the big developers - with such crap quality materials that if you choose a trades career, you’re going to be guaranteed non-stop repair work.
TBH, I wouldn’t own a home built since 1987 - that is when the quality of lumber took a nosedive and the rest of it followed down that slide over the deccades…
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Keep talking Alex.
Sunflier@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Well, it does take hands to raise the guillotine’s blade . . . true. Might also take hands to lock billionaires into the guillotine. So, thanks for the suggestion!
scarabic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Hey as long as I can get paid like a knowledge worker, I’d prefer to work with hands.
pazuzuzu@leminal.space 2 months ago
Yeah, when Karp says “there will be plenty of jobs” he doesn’t mention the wages those jobs will pay…
BranBucket@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Building incendiary devices sounds like it could become a fun and profitable handycraft…
MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
First against the wall.
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Alex needs more people working with their hands. You know, stuff like tilling land, then planting Coca seeds. Follow that up with nurturing said plants until they can be harvested and then he’d like you to use your hands to help process those leaves into sweet sweet Colombian bam bam. From there he’d ask you to use your legs to help transport that magical white nectar to wherever it is that he is currently located so he can deposit it directly up his nose. This is an essential process to delivering value to shareholders interested in trading in subjugation and death.
phil@lymme.dynv6.net 2 months ago
What sounded like impossible in absurdity few years ago seems to be today’s norm. Is that a competition of apocalyptic claims, a new religion? Actually these guys keep on trying to convince themselves and others in order to inflate the bubble till the end. It seems to be like coke, they’re so high on the power it gives them.
Formfiller@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m fine with going back to a way of life that doesn’t include any of these psychopaths or their shit technology
asdf8901@lemmy.myserv.one 2 months ago
It will include their technology, it will also include requirements that those maintaining the systems are capable beyond English Lit degrees…
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 2 months ago
These assholes are pushing the worker bees into another 1789 France.
Sunflier@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Bees will actually kill their queen at time.
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This guy has absolutely no understanding of humanities studies like philosophy and original or creative thought, or how AI works if he thinks those are the fields being threatened. If anything, I’d say his job is more at risk. Maybe librarians.
enterpries@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Thievery is becoming a better profession by the day.
Beats working for fucking peanuts from the families buying our government.
lechekaflan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Punchable face. What a motherfucker.
Mac@mander.xyz 2 months ago
Not him, though. He’s a different class of human that isn’t like us plebeians.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 months ago
He deserves to go like Ghaddafi did
Zorque@lemmy.world 2 months ago
He said it like that, or is that embellishment for the sake of clickbait?
themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I believe in this instance it is an embellishment, but then again this is the guy that want to throw urine on his enemies.
Karp: “I love the idea of getting a drone and having light fentanyl-laced urine spraying on analysts that tried to screw us”
THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m sure it’s the people’s fault.
lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Manufacturing, manufacturing, manufacturing.
How much shit do we really fucking need to make?
willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
We can make shit that wears out after a week of use. Then we need an endless amount of shit.
Strider@lemmy.world 2 months ago
m.imdb.com/de/title/tt6902176/
More than anyone requires.
Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Andor, basically.
Hawanja@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Honestly I don’t give a shit as long as I can make a living. I wouldn’t mind working in a workshop or something. However, I don’t think we’re prepared for the millions upon millions of people who will lose their jobs becasue of AI.
Soup@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The thing we’re not prepared for is to respect trades, we can barely respect anyone as it is but trades especially are seen as “stupid jobs”. It’s also insane that basic rights and comfort within a job seem foreign in those fields, such as basically only existing as jobs with dogshit, early hours, if they’re even consistent to begin with, and toxic workplaces where people are expected to break themselves and be infinitely subservient to their bosses.
I like working with my hands and yet have zero desire to put myself through that bullshit.
flock_of_nazguls@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Well, I hope this douchebag enjoys his eventual prison labour. He’s got the right attitude for it.
liking625@lemmy.world 2 months ago
AI hioefully will be able to replace ultrarich CEOs soon too and cost us almost nothing.
draco_aeneus@mander.xyz 2 months ago
Non-human, uncaring machines who amass and hoard wealth beyond human comprehension honestly doesn’t sound any different than what we have now.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
The machines are less likely to traffic minors for the purpose of sexual exploitation.
liking625@lemmy.world 2 months ago
yes sorry, i just meant to direct companies, not to amass and hoard :)
SuiXi3D@fedia.io 2 months ago
Already do, asshole. Some of us enjoy actually building things.
HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Rape is never funny… Unless it’s an AI powered tentacle monster raping Alex Karp in every hole.
spacesatan@leminal.space 2 months ago
Notable that it’s the author of the article calling people peasants, not Karp.
Fuck you Joe Wilkins. I hope Karp is right and you have to work with your hands like ‘a peasant’ in your words. You might have to do something useful for society instead of writing clickbait for Futurism.
themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I agree the title is demeaning to vocational jobs, some of these even pay more than desk jobs. In some countries plumbers are paid more than doctors. But I highly doubt Karp is right, he is delusional.
This is a much better title: ibtimes.co.uk/palantir-ceo-alex-karp-says-ai-will…
Waphles@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They have always looked down on peasants, nothing has changed. Wait until their techno peasants require more electricity and water than their old meat peasants.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
It’s always everyone but them.
flandish@lemmy.world 2 months ago
that’s been the plan every industrial revolution
phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
And yet there are still jobs.
bibbasa@piefed.social 2 months ago
gross
whereIsTamara@lemmy.org 2 months ago
I type with my dick?
AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Instructions unclear. Dick stuck in typewriter.