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This won't happen. Even if western countries will outlaw LLMs (they won't, people care about unemployed software developers just as much as most software developers cared about unemployed translators), China won't. And why would we even do that? Because software developers like their cushy job and don't want to do blue-collar jobs?


>Because software developers like their cushy job and don't want to do blue-collar jobs?

In the US of A, most blue-collar jobs:

1. Pay less 2. Offer poor, or zero benefits 3. Are hard on your body

Not to mention that if suddenly millions of people flood the markets for blue-collar work, then wages will drop further in those fields.

Why would you expect someone to be comfortable with that future?


I wouldn't. But most software developers didn't care whether translators liked the new jobs they had to find. So I think most non-programmers won't care whether you'll like your new job.


China FOMO? Xi Jin Ping has warned twice about an "AI" bubble:

https://www.ft.com/content/9c19d26f-57b3-4754-ac20-eeb627e87...

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/china-has-a-different-vision-for...

China restricts "AI" across the country to prevent cheating:

https://nypost.com/2025/08/19/world-news/china-restricts-ai-...

Why would we do that? Because we can! Why would we let some rich brats who have never created something and just steal human knowledge get even richer and control and surveil us all?




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