The Biggest Lie About AI and the Job Market

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THE THREE FRAMEWORKS
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Scott Alexander — "Meditations on Moloch" (2014)
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/

Donella Meadows — "Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System" (1999)
https://donellameadows.org/archives/leverage-points-places-to-intervene-in-a-system/

Donella Meadows — Thinking in Systems: A Primer (2008)
https://chelseagreen.com/product/thinking-in-systems/

Thomas Kuhn — The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962)
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo13179781.html

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ADJACENT THINKERS
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Daniel Schmachtenberger — "Solving the Generator Functions of Existential Risk" (2017)
https://civilizationemerging.com/solving-generator-function/

The Consilience Project (Schmachtenberger, est. 2021)
https://consilienceproject.org

Liv Boeree — "The Dark Side of Competition in AI" (TEDAI, 2023)
https://www.ted.com/talks/liv_boeree_the_dark_side_of_competition_in_ai

Tristan Harris / Center for Humane Technology — "The Narrow Path" (2025)
https://centerforhumanetechnology.substack.com/p/the-narrow-path-why-ai-is-our-ultimate

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ON THE FELT EXPERIENCE OF THIS MOMENT
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Adam Monago — "Epistemic Grief" (May 2026)
https://www.adammonago.com/epistemic-grief/

Nicolas Michaelsen — "Death of a Knowledge System" (June 2025)
https://ecologiesofwisdom.substack.com/p/death-of-a-knowledge-system

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EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE
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Recursive Institute — "Structural Exclusion, Not Mass Unemployment" (Jan 2026)
https://recursive.institute/articles/structural-exclusion-not-mass-unemployment-interpreting-2023-2025-ai-labor-evidence/

Brett Hemenway Falk & Gerry Tsoukalas — "The AI Layoff Trap" (March 2026, arXiv 2603.20617)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.20617

Erik Brynjolfsson, Bharat Chandar, Ruyu Chen — "Canaries in the Coal Mine? Six Facts about the Recent Employment Effects of Artificial Intelligence" (Stanford Digital Economy Lab, 2025)
https://digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/publications/canaries-in-the-coal-mine

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 The biggest lie about the AI job market
1:55 What you'll get (4 things)
2:44 The problem we don't understand
4:00 Moloch — the game theory trap
5:54 The AI race (rivalrous dynamics)
9:26 Donella Meadows — leverage points
13:57 Thomas Kuhn — paradigm shifts
17:15 The current paradigm cannot survive
17:54 What game am I actually playing?
22:02 Why no individual can change this
24:00 The beauty of this moment
24:32 Lean into the collapse
25:08 Thank you & next steps

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