[Ray20]

>I quite like the idea of a future where the AI job holocaust largely never happened because license costs ate up most of the innovation benefit.

Not quite realistic. You are talking about very huge benefits, in favor of which licenses will be abandoned. And who don't abandoned them... I mean you can look at the Amish settlements.

[bigbones]

I'd put solid money on Warner earning a few cents every time an AI girlfriend somewhere sings happy birthday within 10 years