Comment by Sol-
2 days ago
200 years ago people would have booed the industrial revolution. They shouldn't boo the amazing technology, but instead cheer for this liberation from toil and find ways to equitably distribute its benefits.
2 days ago
200 years ago people would have booed the industrial revolution. They shouldn't boo the amazing technology, but instead cheer for this liberation from toil and find ways to equitably distribute its benefits.
I agree with your premise, but let's not pretend we did a good job equitably distributing the benefits of the industrial revolution
Not everyone characterizes AI as "liberation from toil," and many are skeptical that any "equitable distribution of benefits" will occur in the first place. That's the point.
Once liberated from toil, how are these kids going to pay for rent?
Turns out the industrial revolution doomed us for short term luxury in the grand scheme of things.
> cheer for this liberation from toil and find ways to equitably distribute its benefits
Why would you think that will happen? You seem aware of, for instance, the Industrial Revolution and what it has ultimately resulted in.
> They shouldn't boo the amazing technology, but instead cheer for this liberation from toil
Come on, we're all adults and well-aware that if companies find a way to make people more productive, it just means they'll expect more, not that we'll get more free-time.
Both sides are at fault here, no? A consumer could work part-time and live as well or even much better as someone 50 years ago, but they largely don't want to. I do concede of course that housing is a bit limiting factor here and my "just adapt your lifestyle" doesn't fully hold.
Can they?
In most places with any sort of economic opportunity, I have a very hard time believing that part time earnings would get you housing on par with a full time earner in 1976.
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In France and Russia there also had been revolutions. They have found a way to distribute.
This post is delusional. There nothing liberating about generative AI and folks aren't investing hundreds of billions because they think it will liberate people.