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by incomingpain 67 days ago
The way I see OP: It's the Luddite Fallacy.

Textile workers worried about machinery saying it's going to result in collapse of the economy when they lose their job.

But every time there's a new technology that threatens some jobs because of an increase in efficiency but investment thus can be placed in other locations creating new jobs. different kinds of jobs.

It's not different this time. Each time the luddite movement is wrong. They are solely concerned with their own selfish concerns and the demands to stop the technological improvement will not be heeded.

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Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future results.

Your logic equates to "there will always be jobs for humans to do", which is naive. Remember that we're counting down in the number of things we do better than inorganic stuff. At some point our bodies (admittedly impressive when compared to other animals) will be surpassed in enough aspects that there isn't anything where we can provide enough value to live off.

Thanks for the downvote.

>will be surpassed in enough aspects that there isn't anything where we can provide enough value to live off.

Regardless of that. AI is here to stay. Nobody is going to revoke the constitutions and criminalize AI to prevent this from happening.

What's going to happen will happen.

> Regardless of that. AI is here to stay. Nobody is going to revoke the constitutions and criminalize AI to prevent this from happening.

> What's going to happen will happen.

Username checks out.

I agree, but that was not the point of contention.

I did not downvote you. I argued why your model of what the future will look like is wrong. That point still stands.