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Led by Nvidia, the AI industry has plans to reindustrialise America

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by nabla9

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All good as long as people don't think that modern industrialization means lots of jobs.
In all industrial economies, the number of people working in the industry declines, even if the industrial output increases. You could maybe increase the people working in industry by 1–5% for some time, but then it moves to a downward trend again.
Labor-intensive industries are low-productivity industries. Even China has started outsourcing them after Chinese wages have grown.

by thelastgallon

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> reindustrialise
Ask the rich, what do you want for Christmas? They'll answer no labor or minimum wage labor.
The best thing for the wealth extraction class is machines that work 24x7. The second best thing is nearly complete automation with minimum wage workers like at McDs. This is going to far worse for tech, because prompting llms can be done by any minimum wage worker anywere in the world.

by dtagames

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It's great news and I hope it happens. Many of us are old enough to have watched electronics and computer tech that was invented here and once made here become offshored and sold to us by other countries. It's sad, unnecessary, and overall not great for the country.
Since the US is blessed with nearly limitless natural resources, abundant land from sea to shining sea, and a large population ready and interested in working, it seems natural that we would try to make every single thing in this country that we are able. Many nations don't have that luxury.

by type0

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by cyanydeez

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Doubt. Giant data centers wasting water is not a path the "industrialization" unless your definition includes all the unpaid externalities like environmental degredation and excludes labor force improvements.

by more_corn

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by Marshferm

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The problem is the dichotomy between specifics (robotics, tumors) and the arbitrary (sentences, imagery, code). No one seems to be taking into account an animal that verifies events using the arbitrary requires vocal and gestural analog sing-a-longs to stay semi rational.
Not even the companies directly responsible for the sing-a-longs have surmised the analog commentary track is required to keep us animals glued to our signals. It’s all a C-suite shitshow.