Theorizing that AI will do 99.9999% of work ignores how vast remaining human work will be
timigod · x · 2026-11-08
Engineer timigod argues that much of the theorizing about AI doing a growing share of human work — up to 99.9999% — lacks imagination about how vast and complex the remaining human work will become.
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