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3/ Andrew Côté (@Andercot / Hyperstition, Inc.) “Technology takes jobs that suck and replaces them with jobs that are cool. This has always been true. What AI forces us to acknowledge is that today lots of jobs make you feel important, but are actually bullshit that waste everyone’s time. Why is it impossible to build physical infrastructure? Because there is an army of 'environmental coordinators' whose job is to make everyone feel good about themselves, do 'stakeholder engagement', answer emails, and generate meetings. This is retarded and dumb. In the past almost everyone was a farmer, now almost no one is a farmer, yet there is more food than ever. We have constructed a large society where the majority of people do not have to think for themselves to survive. Get a degree in accounting, be an accountant. Or law. Etc. With AI, any job that is script-following can be replaced. People will have to start thinking for themselves and making decisions. AI is bad at making decisions and good at recalling information. We will find that the net-net is, yes, many jobs go away, just like machines replaced physical labor. Now, everyone has to think for themselves. This is uncomfortable for a consumer economy predicated on hacking dopamine and wage slavery. "Labor" is another word for "person who is told what to do." It is a good thing for that to end, because it's not necessarily the case that most humans are unagentic idiots, just that we've bred them to be that way to work jobs that suck and dull the human spirit.”