In the Pessiland Future, Only Three Jobs Remain: Plumber, Meat Proxy, One-Time-Pad Entropy Guy
jfischoff · x · 2026-10-28
A piece of AI-circle dark humor: in the "Pessiland" future (the mediocre-not-utopian AI scenario from Kokotajlo's AI 2027), humans keep only three jobs — plumber, meat proxy, and in-person entropy distributor for one-time pads. The joke skewers how post-AGI human labor may reduce to physical presence and trust-verification value.
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