AI taking over the economy
Dec. 19th, 2025 10:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
disappointed_lesbianIt's raining, so today is slightly warmer than most days this time of year, but today is not a warm day. The sun isn't out. I'm standing here in shorts and no socks, and I'm not cold. My lower legs and ankles are a little chilly but it's not unbearable. So now I'm fairly sure that the crushed iron pills are working. I still want liquid iron, however; crushing those pills and licking up the dust is a chore, plus they tastes weird. Whether they taste weirder than liquid iron, I'm more than willing to find out.
So that's one medical issue down. However, I've found that I still don't sleep unless I have the heater on at night and in the morning. I'm not cold in bed, but something about the heat makes me drowsy. This is a problem because heat is expensive.
Today is the second day of my cycle, my second day taking naproxen, my ibuprofen alternative, and the second day the naproxen has had little or no effect. The 300mg of ibuprofen I took earlier this morning had no effect either. So this is one medical issue that's ongoing. I'm afraid I'll be stuck with this one until I stop menstruating.
Today I looked into a company I contracted with before, as a science editor. The job was very much underpaid, but it's a job, it's money, it's remote, the work is not terribly difficult, and I'd be going into it with more insight if I were to work for that company again. There were zero open editing positions on the website. That isn't wholly unprecedented, but it does invite speculation given that this company has (or had) separate positions for niche STEM specialties (so generally a fair number of openings), plus they probably have a lot of turnover. In fact, someone from the company tried to get me to work for them again not long after I quit, even though my reviews hadn't been high.
This lack of jobs also invites speculation in light of a new class of jobs I found: AI editing roles. These consist of editing whatever AI has spat out. Maybe the AI-making-most-knowledge-based-jobs-redundant thing is coming to pass after all. I didn't really believe it when I first read about the prediction. This is at least the second real-world example I've come across: the other was a presentation explaining how AI was threatening the employment of artists. The presentation was for someone(s) in the California government, can't remember if a lawsuit was being filed along with it.
I asked my email provider's AI assistant how I could work as an editor given that so many people are using AI for editing. It said I could market myself as someone who edits AI's work.
Oh, I just remembered: my phone company's AI taking my support call was another example. I'm not sure someone lost a job to that AI because I kept getting (presumably human) responses via email, but it's likely that someone got fired because there are not a lot of reasons to bother instituting AI if it doesn't save money.
I just noticed that I haven't had any tooth pain for the past two or three days.
I tried to watch some videos on whitehouse.gov. They're all hosted on youtube apparently. The richest government in the world doesn't host it's own videos. I have youtube completely blocked in all my browsers. I shouldn't need to access social media sites to know what's happening with my own damned government.
Trump broadcasted something live a couple of days ago. I missed it because I didn't understand how to access the broadcast.
A bunch of annoying shit concerning my medical care happened today; I won't go into it. Today was actually a decent day. I did a lot of job searching. Maybe I'll ask DOR for an electric scooter so I can commute to work without taking public transportation. There's a manufacturing job I'm interested in, several towns away. I'd have to spend hours commuting if I went there by bus, and the shift ends after midnight, so I'd have no way home. I've also thought some more about being a self-employed math tutor. Too much logistics involved.
It's almost bedtime. As my body temperature has improved, I've been sleeping less because I've either been too hot or turning the heat down too low because I'm no longer cold. Let's see if I can hit the right temperature tonight.
Shit. Just noticed that I forgot to buy more melatonin. So I probaby won't sleep too well tonight after all. Staying on top of all these meds and supplements is too much.
So that's one medical issue down. However, I've found that I still don't sleep unless I have the heater on at night and in the morning. I'm not cold in bed, but something about the heat makes me drowsy. This is a problem because heat is expensive.
Today is the second day of my cycle, my second day taking naproxen, my ibuprofen alternative, and the second day the naproxen has had little or no effect. The 300mg of ibuprofen I took earlier this morning had no effect either. So this is one medical issue that's ongoing. I'm afraid I'll be stuck with this one until I stop menstruating.
Today I looked into a company I contracted with before, as a science editor. The job was very much underpaid, but it's a job, it's money, it's remote, the work is not terribly difficult, and I'd be going into it with more insight if I were to work for that company again. There were zero open editing positions on the website. That isn't wholly unprecedented, but it does invite speculation given that this company has (or had) separate positions for niche STEM specialties (so generally a fair number of openings), plus they probably have a lot of turnover. In fact, someone from the company tried to get me to work for them again not long after I quit, even though my reviews hadn't been high.
This lack of jobs also invites speculation in light of a new class of jobs I found: AI editing roles. These consist of editing whatever AI has spat out. Maybe the AI-making-most-knowledge-based-jobs-redundant thing is coming to pass after all. I didn't really believe it when I first read about the prediction. This is at least the second real-world example I've come across: the other was a presentation explaining how AI was threatening the employment of artists. The presentation was for someone(s) in the California government, can't remember if a lawsuit was being filed along with it.
I asked my email provider's AI assistant how I could work as an editor given that so many people are using AI for editing. It said I could market myself as someone who edits AI's work.
Oh, I just remembered: my phone company's AI taking my support call was another example. I'm not sure someone lost a job to that AI because I kept getting (presumably human) responses via email, but it's likely that someone got fired because there are not a lot of reasons to bother instituting AI if it doesn't save money.
I just noticed that I haven't had any tooth pain for the past two or three days.
I tried to watch some videos on whitehouse.gov. They're all hosted on youtube apparently. The richest government in the world doesn't host it's own videos. I have youtube completely blocked in all my browsers. I shouldn't need to access social media sites to know what's happening with my own damned government.
Trump broadcasted something live a couple of days ago. I missed it because I didn't understand how to access the broadcast.
A bunch of annoying shit concerning my medical care happened today; I won't go into it. Today was actually a decent day. I did a lot of job searching. Maybe I'll ask DOR for an electric scooter so I can commute to work without taking public transportation. There's a manufacturing job I'm interested in, several towns away. I'd have to spend hours commuting if I went there by bus, and the shift ends after midnight, so I'd have no way home. I've also thought some more about being a self-employed math tutor. Too much logistics involved.
It's almost bedtime. As my body temperature has improved, I've been sleeping less because I've either been too hot or turning the heat down too low because I'm no longer cold. Let's see if I can hit the right temperature tonight.
Shit. Just noticed that I forgot to buy more melatonin. So I probaby won't sleep too well tonight after all. Staying on top of all these meds and supplements is too much.
