AI makes verifiable work matter: the easier to verify, the bigger the contribution
RexDouglass · x · 2026-09-07
The author lays out a series of claims about automation and work value:
- Most work is bad, in every field including math
- Automation has for the first time made it possible to check work at scale and focus attention on the least-bad output
- The easier work is to verify, the bigger its contribution to humanity
- Value is ecological and relative, not intrinsic
The core argument: AI's biggest shift isn't generation quality but collapsing verification costs, letting us screen work that was previously impossible to review at scale.
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