This shit is scary. People don't know what's going to hit them.
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I find this such a hypocritical topic for most people, that are so eager to decry AI tech, while never really considering the industrialised nature of the world around them. Literally all of the arguments they are making have been made decades before most of them were ever born, from the theft of design, to the destruction of jobs, to even the "validity" of something created by a machine.
It just feels weird to me that people will complain about this and not think of the wider implication or consistencies such a stance would and should entail. As I have said many times before, is this only an issue because industrialisation has finally come for the white collar (overwhelmingly liberal) jobs, or are we actually going down the Dr Theodore Kaczynski thesis route? Because I don't have that much of a problem with the latter, but the former just feels like bitching about [CURRENT THING] with a bipartisan twist.
Its also hypocritical because its only "comfortable" jobs like art and tech that are losing their mind about it.
But the last two centuries have seen labor jobs automated to nonexistence constantly with nary a peep across many industries. Many only still exist at all because of illegals being paid pennies. They'd cry about stopping progress if a bunch of rednecks blocked factories and farms from working to return their jobs.
Which is really why it irks me that this is an "issue". It's such a manufactured outrage and it's so fucking obvious. They're not even wrong to oppose AI and industrialisation, but it's still annoying to see people take any position for all the wrong reasons.
Agreed, but that's a common problem with Leftists overall. Many times they are correctly upset about an issue, but either their reasoning or end goal is so awful that you oppose them as its better to keep the original issue.
Such as corporate abuses or cops in general.
What's funny too, is that all I ever hear anymore is "we need more young people in trades". We don't need more than a few hundred high-education jobs per 100,000, but we'll always need a ton of labourers and maintenance people.
And, sure, you could theoretically build a $500,000 humanoid robot that could shingle a roof, but who's gonna buy one when anyone can buy $5000 in tools and start their own business?
It's both