Techno-feudalism and the rise of AGI: A future without economic rights?(arxiv.org)

195 points by lexandstuff 1 year ago | 158 comments

The AI Layoff Trap(arxiv.org)

37 points by armcat 6 months ago | 36 comments

What is happening to jobs? Separating AI hype from reality(siepr.stanford.edu)

212 points by pod_krad 3 months ago | 279 comments

A quarter of US-trained scientists eventually leave(arxiv.org)

123 points by bikenaga 10 months ago | 147 comments

An Economy of AI Agents(arxiv.org)

111 points by nerder92 11 months ago | 71 comments

Manias and Mimesis: Applying Girard’s Mimetic Theory to Financial Bubbles (2019)(papers.ssrn.com)

52 points by MovingTheLimit 3 years ago | 7 comments

Why is AI generated language so hard to understand?(arxiv.org)

194 points by canjobear 2 days ago | 167 comments

arXiv paper analyzing psycholinguistic features that make AI-generated text harder to understand, attributing it to optimization for information density.

Why did Google Brain exist?(moderndescartes.com)

445 points by brilee 3 years ago | 282 comments

Personal essay by former Google Brain employee Brian Kihoon Lee examining why Google Brain existed as an industry research lab and whether those reasons still hold.

Why do we have so many meetings?(nber.org)

68 points by ilamont 6 days ago | 172 comments

NBER working paper by David Deming and coauthors presenting large-scale economic evidence on workplace meetings from a survey of over 9,000 workers.

28% of job postings on company career sites have been open over 90 days(unlisted.careers)

234 points by rubatrejo 1 month ago | 298 comments

Unlisted's September 2026 ghost jobs report, finding 28.3% of 607,050 postings on employer career sites across 15 ATSs have been open more than 90 days.

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2023)

440 points by whoishiring 3 years ago | 426 comments

Monthly Hacker News Ask HN thread for October 2023 where companies post job openings, with guidelines on location, remote, and visa details.

Ask HN: How can I grow as an engineer without good seniors to learn from?

443 points by prathameshgh 1 year ago | 272 comments

Ask HN post from a new-graduate data engineer acting as tech lead at a non-tech oil company, asking how to grow without senior engineers to learn from.