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Also we have constant progress of automation and technology since thousands of years already, so there would need to be a reason why this step out of all steps

• cratermoon 4y ago
  This deserves an answer. It's not this step. That step was back in the Industrial Revolution. Prior to that, humans relied mostly on muscle power. Either our own or animals. Sure, there were watermills and other things, but those were location-dependent. For tens of thousands of years the only reliable way to get things done was for a human or animal to lift, pull, push, or whatever. Now comes the AI, or really LLM, revolution. All the mental gruntwork humans are still stuck doing, underutilizing their brains, can now be done by computers, so the hype says. Between the massive reduction in the need for physical labor and the removal of the need for mental labor, why shouldn't people be living a much more leisurely life? Why should the fruits of labor reduction only accrue upward, while billions are still chained to jobs producing those fruits?