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We have only been selling our labor for a couple of hundred years. Humanity has been around for hundreds of thousands of years. We will manage. Hey, we can alw

• dsign 1y ago
  >> we can always eat the rich! As long as they are not made out of silicon....
  • falcor84 1y ago
    And even then, we could perhaps genetically engineer ourselves to metabolize silicon.
    • skeledrew 1y ago
      What about metabolizing light and carbon dioxide directly instead?
      • lostmsu 1y ago
        Does not sell as a narrative.
• pixl97 1y ago
  "Dinosaurs have been around 100 million years and they will be around 100 million more" --Dinosaurs 65.1 million years ago.
  • bearjaws 1y ago
    Pretty bad example, maybe something more like "Horses have been working for thousands of years -- horse in 1927".
    • falcor84 1y ago
      How are the two examples different? In both cases the extrapolation was a reasonable bet that ended with a bust, due to a "black swan" event, no? Taleb himself would say that we should always try to include black swans in our predictions, but it's really difficult to do.
  • fmbb 1y ago
    How is that comparable? I write we have only sold our labor for a couple of hundred years. We had civilization for many thousands of years before. Dinosaurs did not live before they lived. And they did not die because their mode of production changed. They did not have a mode of production. Are you suggesting LLMs will exterminate humanity?