Re:ATMs didn't kill bank Teller jobs, but the iPhone did
by TeMPOraL on Thursday March 12, 2026 @04:14PM
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It's very true for healthcare (especially mental healthcare) and education today as well, because for most people, the choice isn't LLM vs. human attention - it's LLM vs. no access at all.
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Re:ATMs didn't kill bank Teller jobs, but the iPhone did
by duskdozer on Friday March 13, 2026 @06:45AM
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It's not like that's an inherently unsolvable problem without using LLMs
Re:ATMs didn't kill bank Teller jobs, but the iPhone did
by NetMageSCW on Friday March 13, 2026 @01:02PM
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Teacher shortages and increasing tuition costs say it practically is.
Re:ATMs didn't kill bank Teller jobs, but the iPhone did
by TeMPOraL on Friday March 13, 2026 @08:11PM
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It's not inherently insolvable, it's just nearly impossible to solve because the alternative solutions tend to have "overhaul the global economy and human nature" as their prerequisite.
Pretty much all of humanity's tough problems, the ones we can't seem to make much progress on despite centuries or more of trying, are at their core coordination problems. We only really make progress on those when we can sidestep explicit coordination in some way. Every other kind of problem is usually amenable to technology, and we've solved most of them already, largely in the last 200 years.