On the reg

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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