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to be fair, automating all unskilled labor jobs is likely to be a different sort of disaster, specifically for people unable to perform skilled labor.

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We've been automating away labor for 250 years now.

It's clearly the best thing that's ever happened in human history, so far.

The "we've been automating since the industrial revolution and jobs have adapted" argument doesn't really account for scale. If I skin my knee (~1% of my skin) once a month for five years, that's hardly an issue. I might even form callouses. If I lose 60% of my skin to injury at once, that's a far bigger situation.

Are you implying that AI will replace 60% of jobs in the time that "regular" progress replaces 1% of jobs?

I agree that that would be a big disruption, and it would take some time to adapt to a 150% increase in productivity.

Some temporary measures to make the adjustment might be needed.

But it would in the end be one of the best things that ever happened to humanity!

If you're rich, that is. Meanwhile, unskilled labor can't pay their rent or buy food.

In the long run, yes. Short term consequences can be devastating so.

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