A super relevant and timely essay "The Weimar of knowledge" by Giorgio Gilestro
.... it is crystal clear that the human monopoly on intellect has ended. .... The real problem is that any activity based on intellectual capacity is about to be hyper-inflated. Academia will fall first, the rest of the job market will follow. Academia has of course been inflating for the past 20-30 years, driven by bad career proxies that rewarded the quantity of papers rather than their quality. Perverse incentives, in economic terms: they sustained the publishing industry as we know it and blew up the bubble. AI is now pushing that trend into Weimar territory, and papers will be worth nothing.
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