There's always a lot of bending over backwards in these comments to create explanations for why the invention whose purpose is to replace labor won't replace labor.
Great point, tractors replaced labor and society has never recovered. We used to have a noble population of farmhands walking behind animals for miles, guiding plows with their bare hands. But thanks to tractors, all that fulfilling communal suffering vanished overnight.
I suspect part of that is denial: “AI won’t replace my job!” Which, sure, maybe this era of AI won’t. Maybe this LLM era won’t replace your job, this time.
The problem is that we will eventually create tools that can and will replace labor. The Capital class is salivating over that prospect quite openly without any shame whatsoever for its consequences.
Fighting against AI is the wrong move. Instead, we should be fighting against a system that fails to provide for human necessities and victim-blames those displaced by Capital, before Capital feels AI can sufficiently displace the workforce.
