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I wouldn't put AI on the same level as the inventions of the industrial revolution. Automation replaced specific tasks. AI is replacing humans themselves. What are humans supposed to do in a world where everything a human can do, a machine can do too?

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There are a lot of tasks machines can do today that humans do anyway. Think baristas and bartenders. People pay more for human-made goods too, despite mass-manufacturing being a couple centuries old at this point. Having a human face is a competitive advantage in lots of stuff.

And this is why we see ever better attempts to mimic human skin, faces, movement, emotions, etc, with robot manufacturers.

And how large is the market for this, compared to the rest of the economy? How will the relative economic leverage of people change as they move from knowledge work to the relational economy?

If the article was written to address the idea of how we adjust to a post-Mandatory-Labor world, I'd be sympathetic to that point. But it's not. It treats the elimination of a particular career as a bad thing. And it's not like people can't still write stories if they want to; they just probably won't make a living on it.

There's a book about that, here is its ACX review:

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/book-review-deep-utopia

Machines still cannot make babies ... Just sayin'.

And as soon as they can construct it you will get a SkyNet or Horizon scenario.

It would appear that with the exception of Africa and parts of Asia humans can't make many either.

Yet

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