Dan Shipper debates automation's hidden assumption: net human work always falls
nbaschez · x · 2026-09-10
In an exchange with @nbaschez, Dan Shipper discusses the underlying assumption in AI automation economics: not that AI creates no new tasks, but that automation models assume net human labor decreases or stays flat even as some new tasks emerge. Shipper agrees with the framing — a worthwhile challenge to standard automation-employment models.
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