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There's a preamble to a later edition of one of Richard Dawkins's books, I believe it was the selfish gene but might have been the extended phenotype.

I'm paraphrasing and it's been many years since I read it, but he talks about a scathing critique he got from someone who wrote to him complaining that the book sent them into a long and deep depression, that how does he get up in the morning with all the meaning stripped away like that.

While I can relate to some AI anxiety[1], I can't help but read that same sentiment into a lot of the blowback.

[1] mainly the potential devaluation of certain types of work and the turbulence associated with that, the further enabling of scammers/spammers, and the general acceleration of technology without real time to digest and adapt.