Killer Point
The Discontinuity Thesis is already being proven true by current economic reality: everywhere, competitive pressure forces individuals, companies, and nations to adopt AI for greater efficiency, and the boundary between “human work” and “AI work” is dissolving so thoroughly that it cannot be defined, policed, or coordinated around.
This is a real-time, fractal Prisoner’s Dilemma, across countries, companies and individuals billions of times a day, amplified by the Sorites paradox: nobody can draw (or enforce) the line between useful human participation and full automation, yet the incentives guarantee everyone defects.
The challenge is unwinnable—not as a trick, but because incentivized AI adoption and boundary erosion make mass productive human employment, and any coordination to preserve it, mathematically and practically impossible under post-WWII capitalism.