Why that book about Bullshit Jobs is not, in fact, bullshit.

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Jason is dying of a cold. Inger is surrounded by an ocean of
redundancies at ANU. Anyone would think winter was coming, but no
- it's the start of Spring (at least here in the Southern
Hemisphere).

After a bit of mutual whingeing on the State of The World, the
team zip through the mail bag. We answer a few burning questions
about AI from listeners. There's also wise words from listeners
on how to use MS Word properly to do cross referencing and
such.

All good stuff. Thank you for making us smarter everyone!

In the work problems segment, Inger tells Jason all about her
theory of why LLMs and AI are not going to take our jobs.
Something, something Capitalism doesn't want us to have no money,
something. To support her theory, she leans heavily on David
Graeber's excellent book 'Bullshit Jobs' and of course, our
friend ChattieG.

No time for what we are reading (again!) but Jason does drop the
knowledge on 'OmniBuJo' and how to create custom perspectives
that act like Bullet Journal spreads. Mostly though, we are just
pleased we got through this episode with Jason fully coughing up
a lung. Enjoy!

Stuff we talked about:
Chat GPT is the best teammate
Why people hide their use of AI
OpenAI is burning money
Bullshit jobs - the original essay
Bullshit Jobs - the book
Inger's notes towards a theory of LLMs and Bullshit Jobs



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