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title: Humanity as a measure created_at: 2026-03-22T12:52:16.823Z updated_at: 2026-03-22T12:52:16.823Z tldr: what to measure of a bored man? is_published: true star: false category: other share_type: add

From the dawn of time, humanity has left behind a relic for the future self. From cave paintings, literature, stone work, and buildings that are impossible to believe. On a scale, these works were done at a time when there was no connectivity, unlike now, where most of the time is spent on the internet. Not arguing that the old times were good, but in the sense that a person can be so bored to do anything other than sitting in a chair and look at a screen. From that era, the only thing you were measured by was your devotion to helping others, or at least your religion made you do so. As we move into this present era of AI, most of the work is being performed by a machine; most likely, we as humans will be bored again.

For most of the industrial revolution and after that, one of the key metric for a human in the loop is performance (basically the throughtput). Now AI can do that, at a record scale. So what are humans being evaluated for? What will be in your next performance review?