It's the opposite. The reading from the consensus experts is that the labor effects of automation aren't unemployability, it's worsening job prospects and increasing inequality.
Those are different things which require different solutions.
> And then he confidently states that this proves that the concept of automation benefits the highly educated.
I'm the author. I linked to 30 or so sources in the article, most of them academic publications from the most respected researchers in the field (David Autor, Daron Acemoglu, etc.)
The article is basically a literature review and vulgarisation for laypeople audiences. It's not some theory I just came up with.
> It’s a problem that can only be understood through first principles reasoning.
3 papers by Daron Acemoglu linked to in the article do that and test their theory against recent trends to see if it holds.
True, but that's not all humans are. They are also social. They are also creative. At least some of them are also deep logical thinkers. So...
> Therefore the automation of high level signal processing will displace humans in the global market.
That might not be the catastrophe you make it out to be, because humans are more than just that. Humans that have jobs that only expect them to be high-level signal processors are, I suspect, rather rare, maybe even nonexistent.
You seem to have a very reductive view of humans. I reject the view that humans are only signal processors.
This guy literally uses graphs and charts from the industrial revolution and and generalizes the results over to automation as a concept. And then he confidently states that this proves that the concept of automation benefits the highly educated. Yeah, well when high level signal processing is automated that won’t be true will it?
Just like global warming, this isn’t a problem that can be understood by looking at localized effects in the recent past. It’s a problem that can only be understood through first principles reasoning. Greenhouse gasses heat the planet. Therefore global warming is a thing. Humans are high level signal processing machines. Therefore the automation of high level signal processing will displace humans in the global market. It’s just inescapable. And yet people mental-gymnastic their way out of it.
And whenever I see “alarmist” in someone’s argument, it’s never a strong argument. The alarmists are right.