/sci/ - Science & Math

Job's are getting harder
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Soon only economically valuable work to be done will be based on complex problem solving and management, which will require only humans in the upper echelon of IQ.
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The problem is not a five day work week, the problem is that the mental bandwidth required for most modern jobs that pay a livable wage is such that during a period of massive cognitive decline (age 25-35) and appropriate readjustment, the IQ floor, or rather the floor for whatever IQ is a proxy to, is steadily raising to unsustainable levels for a majority of Americans, even a majority of Americans interested in office work. Each year the number of products and processes to stay up-to-date on is outpacing the availability of efficient ongoing education, and the number of hoops to jump through to live a “normal” life is increasing. Eventually liveable wage office work will only be available to people with a masters or above as a simple function of these factors.

Couple this with women’s presence in the workplace and equality laws creating greater selective pressures on emotional intelligence and sociability, and you have an unparalleled recipe for disaster slowly but surely weaving itself into our unconscious mind and most basic job finding functions. Most of our children are so fucked. It’ll take the world a serious upset to figure out how to rebuild our systems to serve these developing needs - women and the mentally ill or socially unstable specifically - instead of just clamping every leak and draining every flood like we are today.

Realistically, can I expect AI to develop fast enough to take my job by the end of this weekend? Or should I just kill myself now?