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Not a phase, I’d argue that 90% of modern jobs are bullshit to keep cattle occupied and economy rolling.
In the end when jobs are done right they seem to disappear. We notice crappy software or a poorly done HVAC system not clean carpets.
Just to be clear, the article is NOT criticizing this. To the contrary, it's presenting it as expected , thanks to Solow's productivity paradox [1]. Which is that information technology similarly (and seemingly shockingly) didn't produce any net economic gains in the 1970's or 1980's despite all the computerization. It wasn't until the mid-to-late 1990's that information technology finally started to show clear benef…
The comparison seems flawed in terms of cost. A Claude subscription is 20 bucks per worker if using personal accounts billed to the company, which is not very far from common office tools like slack. Onboarding a worker to Claude or ChatGPT is ridiculously easy compared to teaching a 1970’s manual office worker to use an early computer. Larger implementations like automating customer service might be more costly, but…
Just to be clear, the article is NOT criticizing this. To the contrary, it's presenting it as expected , thanks to Solow's productivity paradox [1]. Which is that information technology similarly (and seemingly shockingly) didn't produce any net economic gains in the 1970's or 1980's despite all the computerization. It wasn't until the mid-to-late 1990's that information technology finally started to show clear benef…
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Not a phase, I’d argue that 90% of modern jobs are bullshit to keep cattle occupied and economy rolling.
Your claim and the claims that all white collar jobs are going to disappear in 12-18 months cannot both be true. I guess we will see.
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What if LLMs are optimizing the average office worker's productivity but the work itself simply has no discernable economic value? This is argued at length in Grebber's Bullshit Jobs essay and book.
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Just to be clear, the article is NOT criticizing this. To the contrary, it's presenting it as expected , thanks to Solow's productivity paradox [1]. Which is that information technology similarly (and seemingly shockingly) didn't produce any net economic gains in the 1970's or 1980's despite all the computerization. It wasn't until the mid-to-late 1990's that information technology finally started to show clear benef…
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Your claim and the claims that all white collar jobs are going to disappear in 12-18 months cannot both be true. I guess we will see.
It's possible to automate the pointless stuff without realising it's pointless.
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Not a phase, I’d argue that 90% of modern jobs are bullshit to keep cattle occupied and economy rolling.
Your claim and the claims that all white collar jobs are going to disappear in 12-18 months cannot both be true. I guess we will see.