Laura Burkhauser: belief

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…Yeah, I do wonder, I think there's a huge question around, will people make these transitions? I think that's a, Because a lot of times when I have this conversation, I'm like, jeez, it seems like this work is going to be pretty highly automated. And then people point to a different, like sort of adjacent kind of work. But a lot of times I'm like, yeah, but are the people doing the first thing going to switch to the other thing in any effective way? I think that is where I see disruption being pretty meaningful. Like I feel like the winners and losers are not, in many cases, they're different people. And that there will be winners doesn't mean necessarily at least that like the losers will be able to kind of pivot into a winning position. It might just be like a major redistribution of like of who's winning and losing. And that could be a huge challenge for society, even, you know, even if while there may be like, you know, all kinds of new things pop up that do create new kinds of winners and new kinds of opportunities. To some extent, like that's just always true, right? Economies are always changing, sectors are always growing and shrinking, and there's labor displacement. This may happen in a sped up way, in which case we'll need, whenever there's like tremendous labor displacement in a short period of time, which there may be in the circumstance, then you need to make sure that systems are in place to take care of people through those moments of extreme disruption. I think like where I, have a lot of faith that the, that long term, there will be big shifts in labor, but there won't, I am not like a subscriber to there being permanent losers and irrevocable losers, unless that is the society that we choose to build. I think like there may be a very difficult moment where there's an accelerated kind of labor displacement, in which case we need to be ready to meet that moment as a society. But I think it's a moment that we've met before and that changing labor landscapes is not like a new human problem. Yeah, that might actually tie back into the original slop question in an interesting way. But maybe one more beat on just kind of some practical product stuff, because I did want to ask about something that I think is increasingly common and is like quite prominent actually in the Descript experience today, which is there are individual button clicks and certainly like individual prompts that I can give to Underlord that will spend a few dollars worth of credits for me in kind of 1 go. And that's a weird new world for software, right? Where it used to be just like click and do whatever you want. And now you're a few clicks in and you might be, you know, through your monthly token budget. How do you guys think about designing for that new cost paradigm?…

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