[osigurdson]

The title is a little misleading as it sounds like it might hint at the end state of next token prediction - i.e. will we reach AGI with it and so on. Instead, this is entirely about "means of production" and "class war" stuff. While that may be coming, it isn't clear that this is the most likely outcome, its just the most pessimistic one. The author might as well have included that it will "be the end of the human race" as well, since once you get to the future state described, there is no alternative outcome that I can see.

[birdsongs]

I would argue we're already in a pseudo class war. Most of us in tech are isolated so far, but the middle class is disappearing worldwide, and the wealth gulf is growing.

Most propaganda seems to be centered on increasing division along gender / race / sexuality boundaries, so that infighting keeps people from looking up for too long.

But I might just be overly radicalised.

[NoGravitas]

All of history is the history of class war. The post-WWII social-democratic years were a kind of truce, but truces in the class war are always unstable.

[ares623]

The western world is about to find out first hand why millions of people decide to leave their homes every year to try and start over elsewhere. As one of those millions of people, I can only shake my head. Was working in an office and being in countless standups that bad?

[customguy]

> The western world is about to find out first hand why millions of people decide to leave their homes every year to try and start over elsewhere. As one of those millions of people, I can only shake my head.

You could also say what it is you think you already know that others are about to find out, and what it has to do with class war.

[0x5FC3]

I apologise. The title was meant to be ironic, but I see how it is misleading, especially to the HN audience.

[gspr]

Would you like to elaborate on why you think the outcome described isn't among the more likely?

[osigurdson]

It requires a nascent analogous architecture to biology (neural nets) and a discovery (next token prediction) to exactly match evolution. I think that is unlikely. Instead it will be a tool that is capable of doing certain things that machines were not capable of previously.