{"id":12334,"date":"2026-10-22T09:43:04","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T14:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/?p=12334"},"modified":"2026-10-22T09:43:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T14:43:26","slug":"20261022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/2026\/10\/22\/20261022\/","title":{"rendered":"Yesterday\u2019s News 2026-10-22"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Brian Klaas<\/small>:
\nThe Hidden Cost of AI \u201cEffort Collapse\u201d<\/a><\/h2>\n

From the dawn of time until sometime around 2025, we used effort as a crude but reliable proxy for value.<\/p>\n

If someone was willing to spend a lot of time doing something, it must mean it\u2019s worthwhile\u2014at least to that person. Even those who loathe art might find a way to appreciate that Michelangelo spent nine years of his existence painting the Sistine Chapel.<\/p>\n

Many human sorting systems therefore rely on a simple mechanism to reduce the volume of applicants or complainants. They consume someone\u2019s most precious finite resource: time. People who are worthy, or who really want something, will signal that through the costly expenditure of their limited time alive.<\/p>\n

In the past, people sifting through job applications could be reasonably sure that the person applying was at least somewhat serious about the job. After all, they had gone to the trouble of filling out an application form that might take even the swiftest writer several hours to complete.<\/p>\n

Today, Claude can apply for dozens of different jobs in a matter of seconds. Spray and pray. <\/p>\n

This dynamic is a new dystopian feature of the AI age that I call effort collapse<\/em>. …<\/p>\n

… humans are only hurting themselves when they take ideas they love to contemplate and convert them, through AI, into completed tasks and ticked off outputs. Nobody dies with a smile, clutching a freshly completed checklist.
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This ethos, that creative effort is bad because it\u2019s hard, would lead to the slopification of everything that\u2019s worth doing. Oh, it takes some effort? …<\/p>\n

(Brian Klaas   more…)<\/small><\/small><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Michael Thomas<\/small>:
\nData Center Developers Have Announced More Than 100 GW of Their Own Power Plants<\/a><\/h2>\n

Samantha Cole @ 404 Media<\/em><\/small>:
\nThe Chestnut Grove Caught in the Middle of A Years-Long Data Center Fight<\/a><\/h2>\n

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