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Hello and welcome to this week's Better Offline monologue.

I'm your host at Zittron.

Now this week's monologue is about something I also just wrote up in my newsletter.

A new term I came up with called Analyslob.

Now Analyslop is when somebody writes a long, specious but authoritative-sounding piece of writing,

with few facts or actual statements, with the intention of it being read as thorough

analysis, researched analysis, indeed. Now, this week, alleged research group Citrini Research,

not to be confused with Andrew Left, Citron Research, or, well, me, put out a truly awful piece of

writing called the 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis, which is this slop-filled scare fiction, written and

framed with the authority of deeply founded analysis, so much so that it caused the global

sell-off in stocks. And I must be clear, if you took this seriously, if you listened to this,

on, I don't know, you had it read out by an LM notebook, or you read it and you kind of furred your brow and like,

oh, this is, this is really provocative. You're a mark. You are being conned. You were in the process of being conned if you haven't already been. Now, this piece, if you, if you haven't read it, please do go and read it. It'll be linked in the notes, my annotated version. Those of you and YouTube won't get the link,

just go to my blue sky,

I swear to God it's there.

It spends 7,000 words though it's my annotated version. Those of you in YouTube won't get the link. Just go to my blue sky.

I swear to God it's there. It spends 7,000 words telling the dire tale of what would happen if

AI made an indeterminately large amount of white collar workers redundant. Now, you read this

7,000 boring fucking word long piece. It isn't clear what AI exactly does, who makes

the AI, how the AI works, really anything about it, just that it replaces people and then bad

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