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AI is going to take over white collar work, and then blue collar work. What do humans do after that? Written by Greg Baker (Macquarie University)
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The economics of impatience (opens the original)
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Toby Ord has an interesting new post on LessWrong, Swarm Scaling. It’s all very preliminary, but the next frontier of AI usage is probably going to be: instead of giving one AI agent more time to think, you throw more AI agents at the problem and have them talk to each other about their progress.For a swarm to be useful, you have to know how efficiently additional workers can be used in parallel. This is a well-studied problem and the efficiency exponent has a name (the “stepping on toes” parame
It’s starting (opens the original)
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I had a heart-warming moment this morning when a casual academic with far too many years of job insecurity emailed me to say that she has notified her employer that she wishes to be made permanent thanks to reading https://solresol.substack.com/p/if-you-are-employed-casually-you .From what she has told me, her case for permanency looks much, much stronger than mine was. Tragically, her experience of prolonged job insecurity is not particularly unusual.If you are a casual or sessional academic em
Automated backups (opens the original)
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I don’t know whether I should be happy, sad, relieved or frightened. Codex was taking a very long time to finish a simple task (logging into one of my servers and updating some content on my website). After using up a large chunk of my weekly usage and far more time than I expected, it gave me its usual report of what it had done and then added:Separately, I restored 12,862 files affected by my deployment mistake and verified them against this morning’s backup. Any post-backup edits cannot be es
Building your own lawyerbot by turning your case into a software development project (opens the original)
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I promised to talk more about the AI setup from my self-represented case in the Fair Work Commission, because it’s the number one question I’m getting: from lawyers and from casual staff at universities. I’m not a lawyer, this is not legal advice. The best I can say is that this worked once for me on one matter.I briefly started talking about this (around 06:15-06:47) when I was on the ABC Law Report just now (15th September 2026).<a href="https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/lawreport/the-rap
The ordinary appeal window is over (opens the original)
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The university had 21 days to appeal Commissioner Crawford’s decision in Baker versus Macquarie. We’re now past that. A late appeal is still possible, but late appeals are much harder to pull off compared to appeals in the normal 21 day window.If you are landing on this page without any context, this is about my self-represented case in the Fair Work Commission. This was an interesting case:I self-represented and used AI very heavily to get a goo
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