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>>55158363
I work for le government and my department has records of the annual work tasks done going back to the 70s in random filing cabinets and a lot of dinosaurs that remember the pre-computer days still kicking around.

The same core work gets done every year as it did back then, but now we just make 10x as much bullshit reports/graphs/powerpoints with half the staff simply because we don't have to draw graphs by hand anymore. I expect the same thing to happen again once microsoft's copilot thing gets good. The half of us that remain in 2045 will just get it to shit out graphs constantly and write up 1,000 page reports no one will read so we look busy.

My job could easily have been automated in the 2000's, the types of constrained optimization we do is a trivial problem with obvious solutions, but there are still people at the helm turning the knobs. Why? Because how could you sell out the country to lobbyists if there was no one around to lobby?

There is one