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Is ChatGPT coming for your job? Catch me on @techwontsaveus talking to @parismarx about the robot jobs-apocalypse that wasn't and what that might tell us about generative AI and the future of work.
Aaron Benanav
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Aaron Benanav
@abenanav
Asst. Professor in the Department of Global Development @CornellGlobal. Automation & the Future of Work @VersoBooks. Switching to the other app. Find me there!
- This is the chart. She spent months courting Republican endorsements, riding the 2016 Clinton strategy to certain defeat. They risked it all to build a centrist party of suburbanites and college kids and lost. It’s time to move on but I don’t think the Dems will move with us.
- When asked about fears of automation in 1969, Arthur C. Clarke famously said that we shouldn't worry about automation: "the goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play." I have never seen his answer quoted in full.
- The last letter from my great-grandparents to my grandfather, before they were sent to die in the concentration camps, on April 20th, 1944, exactly 75 years ago today:
- Replying to @abenanavMy uncle read this letter at Passover in memory of their lives, and with hope for all refugees in the world today, Syrian, Sudanese, and Palestinians among them. To all the climate refugees to come, as well, we pray for safe passage.
- Replying to @abenanavIf you want to read their story in fuller detail, including the story of this letter, my cousin (a @nytimes travel writer) wrote a book about their experience, which is unfortunately now available only as an ebook: amazon.com/Luck-Jews-Incr…
- Replying to @abenanavDo not forget, however, that England and the US, the big democracies, are responsible for our lives and for the lives of FIVE TO SIX MILLION of our brethren. If this ever ends, hold them to account for this tragedy.
- Replying to @abenanavMost Americans learn to write the wrong way. Our teachers said: first outline and then draft. A lot of studies show that it is much better to follow the French method. First make a mess, and then make a plan. Get your ideas out, and then give them structure.
- Replying to @abenanavI am strong and I have closed the book of my life. You are an adult and can take care of yourself. I only feel sorry for your sister, Aviva. She is now 12 years old. I only wish that she shouldn't have to suffer. I don't believe in God any more.
- Replying to @abenanavThis is the book describing my trip to Palestine and the prospect of a Jewish homeland in the future [my great-grandfather was a personal associate of Ze'ev Jabotinsky -- a reminder that history really is "one single catastrophe, which unceasingly piles rubble on top of rubble"].
- Replying to @abenanavDo not despair. Do not be sad. Do not mourn. Perhaps we will survive. But should we perish, remember that nobody lives forever. We have to die at some point. It just happened sooner this way. Try to get along the best you can.
- Replying to @abenanavBela, his father, my great-grandfather, begins: My dearest son, with the minimum necessities we are all packed, as are all the Jews of the town, to be shipped, in accordance with the order of the Hungarian government, to an unknown destination for an unknown purpose.
- Not to put Oliver on the spot (I really appreciate his work!). But I think it is important to point out that this is a graph of the rising profit SHARE of income. No profit RATE can be calculated here. What is missing from this graph? A reference to wealth, the stock of capital.The tendency of the American profit rate not to fall anymore (what do the orthodox Marxist say?)
