Sometimes I ask ChatGPT to help me with crossword puzzles. Doing so quickly clues you in to its limits.

It is stumped even on simple puzzles and proposes answers that do not have the right number of letters or do not use letters that have already been revealed.

What ties typewriter workers, telecommunications workers, and citrus pickers together? 📞 🍊 Come find out at our roundtable about workers, tech, and obsolescence, co-chaired by me and Aaron Benanav #AHA24

#4: AARON BENANAV

Whenever the AI scare comes around again, people get worried about their jobs. Aaron Benanav joined the show in April to explain what happened in the last AI hype cycle and why ChatGPT probably won’t take your job. twitter.com/techwontsaveus…

Remember that old Marxist line about overproduction being the root of crisis? Just sayin…

Our conference on the Future of Work with the IEET is this Friday and Saturday!

Come see some great talks from an amazing line up of speakers!

Juliet Schor
Nancy Folbre
@IShoikhedbrod
Alexandra Mateescu
Maria Brincker
Aaron Benanav
Erik Baker

And many more!
#FutureOfWork

'The opportunity to preserve the West Antarctic Ice Sheet in its present-day state has probably passed, and policymakers should be prepared for several metres of sea-level rise over the coming centuries.'

Goodbye coastal cities?

nature.com/articles/s4155…

Please read this fascinating and important contribution by Nic Johnson to the secular stagnation debates!

A tour de force!

newleftreview.org/issues/ii143/a…

Ran into the climate strikers in Rome. They walk out on the first Friday of every month. American high school students should be doing this!

A few weeks ago was 10 year anniversary of famous Frey & Osborne paper that predicted:

'~47% of total US employment is in the high risk category. … i.e. jobs we expect could be automated relatively soon, perhaps over the next decade or two.'

So far we've seen nothing like…

'Among the many models of the good society, no one has urged the squirrel wheel.'

I'm teaching Galbraith today on people's efforts to acquire status goods, which lose value the more people have them. The digital economy has made us even more obsessed with our relative rankings.

My debate with Seth has been transcribed and posted on the Jacobin website. Admittedly, it is probably easier to read this one than to listen to it!

never-before seen pictures of the famous Sweezy-Schumpeter debate

monthlyreview.org/2011/05/01/on-…

I went to a plant nursery this past weekend where you can “pick your own flowers.” Lots of people know this already, but making your own bouquet has to be one of the greatest of life’s simple pleasures. Something to look forward to for next spring…