This is what people are not realizing about how many knowledge work jobs are about to go away. Penetration testing and bug bounty are two of the highest complexity, multi step, high IQ and high creativity jobs in all of knowledge work. This is a job that many people believed would not and could not be automated. And now it went from not possible to everyone is doing it in the period of about four months. I’m gonna say this very clearly: If this job can be automated, then any job in knowledge work can be automated. That is hundreds of millions of knowledge work jobs totaling somewhere around $70 trillion in an annual compensation. So what happens to the economy when that $70 trillion is not going to those knowledge workers anymore to pay their mortgages, or to spend in the economy in other businesses? I define AGI as the presence of a product that can replace an knowledge worker, and I believed that 2027 was the most likely year for this to happen. It looks now like it will either be 2027 or maybe even later this year in 2026. The UBI conversations are about to kick in full blast probably starting in late 2027 and 2028. And by 2029 or 2030 there will need to be actual checks going out if we are to avoid something really nasty. Assuming that crash doesn’t happen much sooner. We are living in the before scene of a catastrophe movie. And this is coming from an optimist who thinks that the other side will eventually get much better than what we had before the crash. But we all need to wake up to the fact that this is coming.

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