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abundant cognitive labor appears in 43 chunks across 14 episodes, from 2025-08-25 to 2026-04-20.
Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 2/16/26 (2026-02-16), with 7 observations on this topic.
Semantically it travels with llms, huge amount, and Meta, while by chunk count it sits between Apple and Saruman; its yearly rank moved from #210 in 2025 to #3 in 2026.
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Range2025-08-25 to 2026-04-20Mean3.1 per episodePeak7 on 2026-02-16
Observations
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Showing 43 observations sorted from latest to earliest.
A machine aligned with your intentions expands your leverage.
"Reduce cognitive labor" is about minimizing what you already do.[cw]
Instead, it should be about increasing what you can do.
Now that you have more levered cognitive labor, what new things can you do?
Farming used to be 90% of the US population, now it's 2%.
Cognitive labor will go the same way.
So much of the cognitive labor today is bullshit work that can be automated away.
Finding schelling points can unlock convergence.
They pop into existence naturally all the time.
They are hard to find, like truffles in the forest.
Often they require a calibrated nose, sniffing them out.
Lots of authentic 1:1s, lots of study, to find the idea that everyone agrees is doable and des