Comment by tracerbulletx
4 days ago
This is a good thing. This is where the economy surplus went. Not to 5 days of leisure for everyone. But to jobs that keep us occupied, engaged, and motivated but aren't strictly required. The alternative is just either starving everyone to death, except for a few elite and their slaves, or everyone being bored out of their minds and wondering what the point of life is.
If the solution is ever more manuscripts that solve no interesting problems and that nobody will ever read, let's find another solution.
Why would you assume someone would write the paper at all, if the problem was uninteresting?
That's literally the basis of employment. People write papers, they get paid. Science does not get done.
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For one thing, because I watch the AI and ML categories on arxiv.org.
Is this a joke or so wildly out of touch? Both of your alternatives sounds very much like the world today, but we’re all still working anyways