relationship with work
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relationship with work
Our metrics of progress have continuously abstracted: from the tangible bushels of wheat in agricultural economies (with natural physical limits), to industrial-era efficiency metrics (units/hour, machine uptime), to the nebulous productivity measures of knowledge work. Each evolution has moved us further from human-scaled, naturally bounded metric... See more
Tina He • Jevons Paradox: A personal perspective
Traditional economics might predict that AI-boosted productivity would reduce working hours, a four-day weekend for tasks that once took five days. But reality has different plans. We're witnessing what I call the "labor rebound effect"—productivity doesn't eliminate work; it transforms it, multiplies it, elevates its complexity. The time saved bec... See more
Tina He • Jevons Paradox: A personal perspective
What happens when the consensual vision around how AI minimizes work time and maximizes leisure time is in fact, wrong. And what happens in reality, when those that are already productive, only work so much more? And as individuals become much more empowered, how does one stop oneself from working, that now the opportunity cost of not working becom... See more
Tina He • Jevons Paradox: A personal perspective
what a provocative statement: “AI makes the opportunity cost of not working almost infinite” because as computing becomes cheaper, possibilities multiply
The worst kind of company is usually not the one where there's too much real work to do, but the kind where there's not enough. It's in this realm the real monsters appear. Without enough real problems to go around, humans are prone to invent fictitious and dreadful ones.
This is the root of David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs analysis. That a shocking pe
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