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- The author contrasts two responses to AI displacing white-collar workers: Citrini Capital's fictional memo focusing on job losses (S&P down 38%, unemployment at 10.2%) versus the author's focus on new jobs created.
- The author uses fiction (short stories generated with Claude) as a thinking tool to concretize abstract concepts from the 'Traffic Jam Explorer', such as 'Computational Experience Reviewer', finding stories more effective than trees of nodes.
- The author launches 'Near Zero', a weekly short story project set in a world where software building costs have collapsed, exploring new professions and problems; the first story, 'The Executable Muse', is about a 'Senior Computational Experience Reviewer'.