Title. I have loved Sam's writing over the years. He deserves more exposure.

nice read but i think i dont agree really on the higher thinking part.

it says higher thinking is the key to not be outpaced by AI, but they are designing now systems with AI that do just that... you will not be able to outpace it.

I think ultimately, either a large part of jobs will completely disappear, or drastically change shape.

You can see the same in factories, where new equipment replaces workers, now that equipment needs maintenance / operators etc. , which also get automated, and changes again the jobs in the factory, on and on.

It might be hard to accept, but ultimately a lot of jobs will disapear and that means there will be much less jobs. A solution would be not to be required to have a job, but in our current economic / political system this is not possible in 90+% of communities. (some places have the right culture for this... but its usually remote and harsh places...).

If you want to keep having 'value' in this sense, hard skills are likely going to be more useful. handicrafts too. manual labor that still needs to be done manual or has added quality if done manually by a human.

robots are much harder to build to replace your intricate skills than say a piece of software that automates your daily office tasks, whatever that office job might be.

Also ofcourse which, i think, won't go away, is a lot of social work. that might even become more and more. why? people will get depressed being out of a job in massive scales. people will feel useless because the world is changing from a 'person has value because they can provide xyz' to a totally different paradigm (maybe we'll need to be nice to eachother for one?? YUCK). And ofcourse, a lot of social work, works because its done by humans. there are many things a human can offer which a robot or AI cannot. like closeness, holding someones hand if they are about to cry, yada yada.

I hope, that humans will accept that most work will be done by software and drones. and that it will lead people to look at other ways of putting value to themselves and others.

maybe then there is a chance that humans will become more human again - and drones can be drones. like it should be. (a lot of humans are drones now because they do the work of drones!)