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Explain why this stance, repeated often throughout history at the first sight of innovation (the plow, the car, electricity, phones, the internet, etc), and wro

by 0xy 7mo ago

Explain why this stance, repeated often throughout history at the first sight of innovation (the plow, the car, electricity, phones, the internet, etc), and wrong every single time, is correct now.

AnimalMuppet 7mo ago
The plow was regarded as a threat to democracy? I'm going to need to see some references for that claim...
- slater 7mo ago
  (not OP but likely they're trying some "Luddites were wrong, too!" thing. And if so, also misunderstanding the Luddites)
  - guzfip 7mo ago
    Jesus, these people are so stupid, they can’t even ask an LLM to come up with a more comprehensible response.
georgemcbay 7mo ago
> Explain why this stance, repeated often throughout history at the first sight of innovation (the plow, the car, electricity, phones, the internet, etc), and wrong every single time, is correct now. The scale and the speed of the changes brought about by AI are almost certainly going to be far greater than anything we've ever seen in the past. Scale matters. The entire value of LLMs is proof that scale matters.
anon7000 7mo ago
It wasn’t wrong every single time. In fact, many of the more successful social programs in the US happened as a response to extreme poverty and economic disruption (the Great Depression). People need to get it into their fucking heads that things get really ugly and violent under systems of extreme income inequality. So far, AI is not focusing on solving that problem, just making it easier for tech people to get richer.