Just a heads up here at the top of the show, our language gets a little spicy in this episode.

Okay, you've been warned.

All right, girls, listen carefully.

This is the wrapping department.

Miss ma'am.

Now, the candy will pass by on this conveyor belt and continue into the next room where the girls will pack it.

You probably know this classic scene from I Love Lucy.

And if you've never watched it, your parents or your parents' parents did.

Lucy and Ethel are working at a chocolate factory.

They're wrapping pieces of chocolate as they move down the conveyor belt.

But the belt starts going faster and faster.

Lucy and Ethel cannot handle the pace.

They're fumbling, they're eating chocolate.

This whole thing is going totally haywire.

And this losing game from 1952 shows up in Corey Doctoro's new book.

And the human who is working with the machine is almost certainly the bottleneck.

AKA Lucy and Ethel are the problem here. Dr. O is a journalist, a sci-fi author, and he coined the term

in shittification. The idea that goods and services online

degrade over time in the service of profit. Now, Dr. Rose written about AI. In his book,

The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI. The Human can't work as long or as fast or lift things as heavy or what have you.

And so when you pair the human and the machine, the human gets worked very hard as opposed

to the other way around when you pair the machine with the human and the human's in charge.

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