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inigyou 7 hours ago

This assumes sufficient jobs. We have been below replacement jobs for a long time but we made up the difference with Bullshit Jobs. Now we might even be running out of those.

Esophagus4 7 hours ago | parent [-]

> Bullshit Jobs

I’ve only read the article, not the full book, but I’m not sure I buy the premise.

Maybe we can’t see what the new post-AI society looks like yet, but I tend to believe society progresses as it evolves.

It doesn’t mean it won’t be rocky for many people, and good social safety nets will make this easier, but I generally don’t think there will be some kind of dystopian future where society runs out of work to do for humans.

inigyou 7 hours ago | parent [-]

A lot of current bullshit jobs involve generating text that nobody reads or cares about. LLMs replace these.

hparadiz an hour ago | parent [-]

Everyone kinda ignores that you can now generate that text in any language at a whim and it will do a far better job than previous translation programs. What a huge improvement in efficiency.

inigyou an hour ago | parent [-]

Bullshit jobs have to be inefficient to work or else we have an unemployment crisis.