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What if AI really does take all the jobs… and not just the boring ones? In this episode of Occasionally Philosophical, Doug and Mark dig into AI as a “thinking partner,” how they actually use tools like NotebookLM, ChatGPT, and Claude to understand books, and where the line is between help and hallucination. From Melanie Mitchell and Hofstadter to weird new acronyms driving AGI dreams, they explore what the AI people think they’re building—and what that means for the rest of us trying not to lose our minds in late capitalism. Then the conversation shifts: If AI and robots do the “bullshit jobs,” what’s left for humans—UBI, leisure, art, or just a new flavor of grind? They talk work-life balance, burnout, T-Pain’s “clock into your dream” advice, indigenous leisure vs. modern hustle culture, and why chasing money without time might be the ultimate losing game.