More than industrialization? Come on. It's staggering because it's impacting us.
Read up on Luddism. These were multi-generational trades undone by the loom alone. The Industrial Revolution required millions of people to not only retrain, but also relocate. It changed political structures, often violently.
Even in the 1980s, skilled spreadsheets were done in by Excel. Does that mean we should ban Microsoft Office so folks can sketch out models by hand?
I'm not saying to ban it. I think the productivity gain could be a gift. Everybody being freed from the need to work would be amazing.
But without actually dealing with it, what's the proposal for dealing with the majority of the population of your country being completely without employment? What do we do for money when there's no work left to be done? The whole country can't trade stocks for a living.
Which 50% are you seeing replaced? We can, and have, always imagined mass income eradication.
I'm not arguing we do nothing. But zero problems surfaced so far are even remotely actionable, as they're all well within the realm of hypothesis versus evidence.
Can't wait for my political system to be violently up ended by AI. I can imagine it will only change for the better, right? Right??
