> The industrial revolution didn't make human lives miserable, it made it better.
I think this is a point that is genuinely debatable. At least, it's pretty easy to argue both sides of that proposition.
I think this is a point that is genuinely debatable. At least, it's pretty easy to argue both sides of that proposition.
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.
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.
That entirely depends on what price the angels would extract for doing so.
I’d love if you could elaborate or link to a good argument on this (besides the Unabomber…) I’m curious.
Nope. But that's not the only other option.