David_Gerard comments on Rationality Quotes August 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: David_Gerard 05 August 2013 08:49:23PM 10 points [-]

I concur in the general case. But I would suggest the people complaining work in computers. I'm a Unix sysadmin; my job description is to automate myself out of existence. Checklist=shell script=JOB DONE, NEXT TASK TO ELIMINATE.

It turns out, thankfully, that work expands to fill the sysadmins available. Because even in the future, nothing works. I fully expect to be able to work to 100 if I want to.