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Routine Work
- All work can be divided into four types: routine and nonroutine, cognitive and manual.
- Routine work is the same stuff day in and day out, while nonroutine work varies. Within these two varieties, is the work that requires mostly our brains (cognitive) and the work that requires mostly our bodies (manual).
- Where once all four types saw growth, the stuff that is routine stagnated back in 1990. This happened because routine labor is the easiest for technology to shoulder. Rules can be written for work that doesn’t change, and that work can be better handled by machines.
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Neural Networks
They’re a giant network of interconnected cells. Some of these connections are short, and some are long. Some cells are only connected to one other, and some are connected to many. Electrical signals then pass through these connections, at various rates, and subsequent neural fir...
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Nonroutine Automation
We need to recognize what it means for exponential technological change to be entering the labor market space for nonroutine jobs for the first time ever. Machines that can learn mean nothing humans do as a job is uniquely safe anymore. From hamburgers to healthcare, machines can be created to su...
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Decoupling Income From Work
The idea is to put machines to work for us, but empower ourselves to seek out the forms of remaining work we as humans find most valuable.
This paycheck would be granted to all citizens unconditionally, and its name is universal basic income.
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Deep Learning
The power of deep learning is that it’s a way of using massive amounts of data to get machines to operate more like we do without giving them explicit instructions.
Instead of describing “Chairness” to a computer, for example, we instead just plug it into the Internet ...
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Big Data
Big data isn’t just some buzzword. It’s information, and when it comes to information, we’re creating more and more of it every day. In fact, we’re creating so much that a 2013 report by SINTEF estimated that 90% of all information in the world had been created in the prior two y...
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Four-Hour Creativity Limit
Many motivational speakers have mentioned the three to four hour biological limit of creative work that can be accomplished in a day.
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Importance of Deep Work
In the future, work that requires repetition will be replaced by machines.
Only 3 types of people will survive. These are following:
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Work and leisure
Work is fun, and a life without meaningful labor can make one miserable.
However, work should not be the only enjoyable activity in life. Working hard is only a part of the good life. Financial rewards that come from hard labor should be put to use for the sake of leisure.
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