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There's an anti-productivity link round the front page that answers this well - the amount of useless work to be done is infinite, and growing productivity on u
by 8note 4y ago
There's an anti-productivity link round the front page that answers this well - the amount of useless work to be done is infinite, and growing productivity on useless work only lets you do more useless work.
The more useless work ai is able to do, the more useless work will be asked of it. The ai doesn't have opinions about what it should be doing, so without people to push it into doing the right thing, it's going to be answering a lot of emails
- usrusr 4y agoThe recent rounds of tech giant layoffs suggest that capital is far more capable of asking wether a given unit of work is actually useful than we might have thought before. If n employees can earn m money, sure, one form of institutional greed might assume that 2n employees will earn 2m money, and 100n 100m. But if that fails (and chances are it will, because everything has a sweet spot beyond which lies the land of diminishing returns), it's hardly surprising that the next form of greed that will be attempted is discovering how much of m will remain with n/2.