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1. Why The Economics Of AI "Can't Be Made...

Reply to edhopper (Original post)

Sat Dec 27, 2025, 11:12 AM

Saturday

To Pencil Out” - featuring Cory Doctorow

makes a lot of good points, one for example:
the types of jobs AI can effectively replace are jobs where mistakes don’t matter, like AI porn, commercial art (ad copy) etc…and the payroll of those types of jobs is effectively zero when compared to the debt etc of AI companies.

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