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> quality of life empirics suggest the industrial revolution was a benefit anyway. [citation needed]

I'm not trying to stuff AI back into Pandora's box. It's here, and it's coming. It can be a really great thing, or it can be catastrophic. So I mostly agree with your last point. But it we're going to talk about learning from our mistakes, the industrial revolution gave us The Jungle, and Amazon, and the obliteration of The Amazon.

Things didn't work out for the best; many of them worked out horribly. And things that did work out did so because the road was paved with human bodies (and tens of billions of nonhuman bodies).