Re:Teacher AI Use Is Already Out of Control and It's Not Ok
by meindnoch on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @06:56AM
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>There's also a question of apprenticeships over the current schooling system. Robotics' AI are not as advanced as VLMs, so while plumbing will get solved eventually (and a tentacle robot arm with a camera in each "finger" is clearly superior to our human arms in tight spaces), right now it still looks like a sane thing to train in.
This is the current meta. Today's knowledge workers are propertymaxxing like crazy, and sending their kids to trade school. Well, at least those who see the writing on the wall. The second half of the 021st century will see the rise of the PLIWs [1]. Knowledge work will become extinct. The social order will be:
1. elites: a small aristocracy, who control the access to AI
2. middle class: PLIWs
3. low class: children of today's knowledge workers who couldn't amass sufficient wealth for their kids to become PLIWs. Also called slop-feeders, as their job is to carry out the instructions coming from the AIs without questioning or understanding what they're doing.
This is the current meta. Today's knowledge workers are propertymaxxing like crazy, and sending their kids to trade school. Well, at least those who see the writing on the wall. The second half of the 021st century will see the rise of the PLIWs [1]. Knowledge work will become extinct. The social order will be:
1. elites: a small aristocracy, who control the access to AI
2. middle class: PLIWs
3. low class: children of today's knowledge workers who couldn't amass sufficient wealth for their kids to become PLIWs. Also called slop-feeders, as their job is to carry out the instructions coming from the AIs without questioning or understanding what they're doing.
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[1] PLIW = Physical Labour, Inherited Wealth