I agree with him. Historically, society handsomely rewarded the book-smart, the classmates who could absorb rules and execute on them flawlessly. Doctors, lawyers, accountants, professions where creativity was almost a liability. In the new AI era, that entire skillset gets heavily discounted, approaching irrelevance. The honors student who aced their SATs and was applauded for their 'intelligence'? They're on a path to obsolescence. In fact, you could start treating a perfect test score as an anti-success metric.
Successful companies of the future will need to identify neurodivergent candidates who have a solid foundation, but it's not all upside. These individuals often struggle in conventional social environments, may take risks that could negatively impact a project, lose focus when not sufficiently challenged, and would be more susceptible to substance use. So developing rigorous criteria to find high-functioning neurodivergent talent, and fostering the right environment for them, becomes a critical competitive advantage.
Put differently, we're entering a bizarre, topsy-turvy world. The student who sat eagerly at the front of the class, hand raised, awaiting the teacher's next instruction? They may find themselves unemployable. Meanwhile, the kid staring out the window, the one who couldn't fathom how anything the teacher was saying could possibly matter, and saw it simply a busy work. That's your next hire!
Strong agree with Karp that people with different thinking will be rewarded.
But strongly disagree that humanities will be automated or become less popular. It will just take a new shape. What I mean is humanities will no longer be gatekept by elite academics with fancy degrees but rather take a new form. What the form would be I don’t know.
And the vast majority of people will make peanuts with a tiny middle-class of cutthroat specialists all ruled by warmongering, sociopathic billionaires who want it all. Feudalism has returned.
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Successful companies of the future will need to identify neurodivergent candidates who have a solid foundation, but it's not all upside. These individuals often struggle in conventional social environments, may take risks that could negatively impact a project, lose focus when not sufficiently challenged, and would be more susceptible to substance use. So developing rigorous criteria to find high-functioning neurodivergent talent, and fostering the right environment for them, becomes a critical competitive advantage.
Put differently, we're entering a bizarre, topsy-turvy world. The student who sat eagerly at the front of the class, hand raised, awaiting the teacher's next instruction? They may find themselves unemployable. Meanwhile, the kid staring out the window, the one who couldn't fathom how anything the teacher was saying could possibly matter, and saw it simply a busy work. That's your next hire!
But strongly disagree that humanities will be automated or become less popular. It will just take a new shape. What I mean is humanities will no longer be gatekept by elite academics with fancy degrees but rather take a new form. What the form would be I don’t know.