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oeziyesterday at 10:19 PM2 repliesview on HN

> What to do about it is the real issue.

Yes, it is and the article isn't going there enough what options we have as societies. I think this is because the article is still trying to convince you that the white collar job losses are indeed coming rather than taking this as a given.

If we take it as a given but don't consider a Terminator/SkyNet scenario within the next 10 years, then we do have some options:

- Taxing token usage

- Requiring local data centers - Requiring AI oversight

- Nationalizing the AI companies

- We probably need Chinese-style national firewalls to prevent companies moving their AI compute abroad

- Charging companies per displaced worker

- Requiring human worker to token consumption ratios in companies

A lot of these could help soften the blow of the rapid changes so labor markets can adapt.


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Eezeeyesterday at 11:16 PM

Let's say you do all that. What about literally every other country on earth that is not the home of Openai/Anthropic/Google?

AmazingEveryDayyesterday at 10:30 PM

Are tokens fungible? (not referring to NFT's!)

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