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To be honest, I think Graeber is a bad anthropologist, in that he doesn't understand the symbolic actions undertaken by the bullshit jobs. Can all the magic rit
by _glass 4y ago
To be honest, I think Graeber is a bad anthropologist, in that he doesn't understand the symbolic actions undertaken by the bullshit jobs. Can all the magic rituals of business be substituted by a machine? There is a meaning behind how business is conducted in a certain kind of fixed language, equal to magic spells. Not doing anything really, but meaning the world to the system. ChatGPT will prove useful, but the jobs will still be there. The movers and shakers, that hold the world together will be in other roles of society, and will not be able to use ChatGPT. Because to move and shake you have to break out of statistical models, you have to do what is unlikely.