> 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.

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inigyou 11 hours ago | parent [-]

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

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hparadiz 5 hours 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.

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inigyou 5 hours ago | parent [-]

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

	▲	Muromec 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		If the bullshit job is really bullshit by design and is intended to solve unemployment crisis, then LLMs will not threaten them. There will be a new kind bullshit job to plug the new hole in the resource allocation algo.