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I’m not spending another 15 years of my life on this. It suffices to say:

1. How do you ask “right questions” with “zero education”?

2. Who would want that?

3. Are you afraid enough in your white collar job to finally accept that AI is pure labor busting?

I’m not saying AI is evil — god forbid I be that moralistic and clear — I’m saying it is worse than that. It’s MID. Too mid to do much more than externalize some risk, produce some mid documents, and accelerate climate risk as a cute little benefit.

"What loaded next were some little animated boxes and that blur of not-really-text-shaped blobs that is already too familiar as the sign that somewhere, an "AI" system is draining an unholy amount of energy to generate an output."

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