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And the comparison with the industrial revolution is a poor analogy because the industrial revolution never proposed as a goal to automate humanity in totality,
by zarzavat 4y ago
And the comparison with the industrial revolution is a poor analogy because the industrial revolution never proposed as a goal to automate humanity in totality, merely to automate human drudgery.
AI is an anti-industrial revolution, because it proposes to start with the most fulfilling aspects of human existence: writing, the arts, and to automate people engaged in those jobs, and to only later come to automate human physical labour. It’s a regression.
- bbor 4y agoIf angels came from the heavens and offered to take care of our needs, would you fight them? I think it’s a coincidence that it’s threatening some kinds of artists first - I don’t see that distinction lasting long with the advent of plugins, and art has a fundamental, semi- necessary human quality that is not present in knowledge work.
- JohnFen 4y ago> If angels came from the heavens and offered to take care of our needs, would you fight them? That entirely depends on what price the angels would extract for doing so.
- mrguyorama 4y agoAlso it will be fucking terrible at those things. In a thousand years middle schoolers will learn about this era of vacuous, meaningless, copycat art as a dark age.