Burkov: Humans Just Switched From Doing to Validating, No Real Change
danfaggella · x · 2026-11-01
ML book author Andriy Burkov argues nothing has substantively changed with AI: "Previously, the human did the work and then used the machine to validate it. Today, the machine is doing the work, and the human is validating it" — comparing it to tractors and dishwashers. danfaggella replied with a doomsday essay screenshot, "Economic Irrelevance Means Existential Irrelevance," laying out a chain from AI replacing decisions to AI-to-AI economies and humanity being buffered out of existence, mocking naive AGI wealth expectations.
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