Can someone explain to me like I’m 5 how AI will replace the 30-40% of workers who have fake email jobs? The last time we had a wave of automation in office work (rise of the computer) - we just created a lot of new busywork. How is AI any different?
Automating call center work or secretarial functions seems like the most obvious functions for direct role removal. But that’s based on the cultural view that those jobs are “rote”. Lots of fancy fake email jobs are basically glorified secretarial work (“Chief of Staff”)
Feels like neither the Silicon Valley autists nor the rational “market believers” actually really understand what work even is. This isn’t some rational economic function for the top two quintiles, this is a cultural ritual.
We make presentations and have meetings because our ancestors did that. But now we make much better presentations and have many more meetings (with far less structure and purpose). These are the ritual gestures that define our lives. This is our rain dance.
For elite work, the most abstract, immeasurable, and unquantifiable form of output - the big story has been just how comically silly the work has become. Longer and more beautiful PowerPoints. More useless falsely precise detailed models.
I just don’t see us letting the computers take that from us. If anything - they’ll enable ppl to engage in ever more comical zero sum games.
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