[buredoranna]

If you're interested in upsides, I can highly recommend the book "Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future", by Johan Norberg [1].

I was able to borrow the audio book from my library... absolutely worth the listen.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress:_Ten_Reasons_to_Look_...

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[eichin]

2016 - so, generic upsides of global capitalism, but nothing specific to the AI bubble?

[buredoranna]

Fair point... but I feel awash in doom, gloom and other apocalyptic predictions.

I found this book to be a welcome breath of fresh air, and I enjoyed listening to it.

It revealed to me that maybe, just maybe (we can only hope) things aren't quite as bad as we've been lead to believe... and while ai is obviously not mentioned, it does help cast modern tech developments in a more favorable light.

One specific upside from ai?

I no longer have to write systemd unit files.

That alone may be worth the cost.