I magine unwinding after a long day at work by reading about the end of work. A post on Reddit tells you that “The _entire_ point” of artificial intelligence is to “ensure you have zero ability to work for a living”. You visit Blind, an anonymous confessional for anxious tech workers, where employees trade horror stories of two-year job hunts yielding nothing but automated rejections.
The best thing you can do, you decide, is to future-proof yourself by mastering the new tools. But then you read that AI is said to have made short work of the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture. Time to change job after all?
Harvard rejected you, so best to stay put. At least your boss likes you. If the country is winning the future, why are its investors so glum?
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