sc94597 said:
@ Bolded It's the same in kind (fundamentally different society with different modes and relations of production) but different in pace and intensity. The transition to capitalism was pretty disruptive. For nearly ten thousand years agricultural work was the primary occupation for the vast majority of people. Ownership over landed property was the source of wealth. The transition to wealth accumulation via arbitrage and more abstracted property ownership, and wage labor rather than slave or drudge labor was pretty significant. It just happened over half a millenia, whereas this is happening over a century at the longest (with the start date in the 80's probably.) The italized is point blank wrong. Alpha Proteo is good, it has revolutionized medical research. The automation of formalization of mathematics and quantitative science is good and will bring many advancements in sciences, despite science being the least funded its been in a century. I can see if your argument is that AI is on net bad, but to say there are no good applications is based in ignorance. |
Say that again after AI kills hospital patients, just like an AI chat bot made Sewell Setzer III kill himself. And I doubt he was the only victim of such an AI situation.








