But this is just proof that long ago we ceded
The ballad of John Henry was written in the 1840s
“Does the engine get rewarded for its steam?” That was the anti-automation line back then
If you gave up anything that was previously called “AI” we would not have computers, cars, airplanes or any type of technology whatsoever anywhere
>Does the engine get rewarded for its steam?” That was the anti-automation line back then
Sure, and it was wrong because it turns out the conductor does get rewarded. Given train strikes that had to be denied as recently as a few years ago, it's clear that's an essential role 150 years later.
With how they want to frame AI as replacing labor, who's being rewarded long term for its thinking? Who's really being serviced?
Then its firmly an organizational problem with how reward is allocated in human society.
Humans haven’t figured out how to include all humans and ecological systems into the same “tribe” and therefore the infighting between artificially segregated human groups, disconnected with ecological “externalities” which prevents a sustainable cooperative solution.
So most likely it will continue to be a small number of humans dominating the rest with increasingly powerful tools that reduce the number of humans required to act in active domination or displacement roles.
Humanity long ago decided that its everyone for themselves and to encode “might makes right” into ritual, mythology and organizational formation-operations.
Yes. And do we know what this leads to in history? Conflicts, violent uprising, coups, and wars. At some point, the population reaches a breaking point and outs the oppressors. This happening as recent as last month, so 2025 isn't any different from 1525.
The tool itself doesn't matter, but the people are falling into the same cycle once again. I can see LLM's used ethically and carefully managed to assist the populace. That's clearly not what's happening and is the entire reason I'm against them. It's tiring being dismissed as a luddite just because I don't want big tech to yet again recklessly ransack the populace with no oversight.
You’ve correctly identified the problem and the fact that this cycle is going to continue.
How do you think you can break the cycle?
Do you have a suggestion for what you are going to do about it?