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CrelbowMannschaft t1_jebxepc wrote

Reply to comment by Emory_C in When will AI actually start taking jobs? by Weeb_Geek_7779

Do you have evidence that they're not?

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/03/big-tech-layoffs-2023-twitter-meta-amazon-google

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Emory_C t1_jebxyvt wrote

🙄 That's not how evidence works. You can't prove a negative.

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CrelbowMannschaft t1_jebyzko wrote

Of course you can. If a wall has only one coat of paint, and it is white, that proves that the wall is not painted some other color. In math, proofs of impossibility are very common. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, but evidence of absence is proof of a negative.

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Emory_C t1_jec65j9 wrote

Correct. But in this case the burden of proof is obviously on you since you're making the assertion.

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CrelbowMannschaft t1_jec7htn wrote

It's a reasonable correlation to observe. AI gets better, tech jobs go away. There's a reasonable understanding of how that process works. If there's some other reason, that should be at least as reasonably explained. No one has explained any other reason, other than "business cycles," which is vague and imprecise enough to be meaningless without further information and support.

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Emory_C t1_jecc38t wrote

Right. So the answer is “No, I don’t have any proof.” Thank you.

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CrelbowMannschaft t1_jecc88k wrote

And your answer is, "Beats me why it's happening! Sure isn't some obvious process that we already know to be at work in these situations, though!" Thank you.

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raylolSW t1_jedr7xy wrote

Yep, it’s called the lower demand in tech after the pandemic, hired and tech uses during 2020-2021 was insane

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