Bill Gates says a 3-day work week where ‘machines can make all the food and stuff’ isn’t a bad idea::“A society where you only have to work three days a week, that’s probably OK,” Bill Gates said.

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    1 year ago

    There will, for all of the foreseeable future, be a human element in every manufacturing or farming process.

    AI can beat replace repeatable behaviors. There will always be someone on-site to address outlier situations.

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      Exactly, and it shouldn’t be hard to find someone willing to do that job for 3 days a week.

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        Sure but they’re not gonna want to do it as a salaried employee, because the random overtime required will be more valuable.

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        If we invent AGI all bets are off for everything though. That’s a discovery on par with fire or the wheel.