I wish influencer programmers[1] cared a quarter as much about social revolution as they cared about tech revolutions. Will it disrupt all people in tech? Will the benefits go to the top? Then what about an appropriate social response? No. In response to that we have “I hope” and “I wrote a novel .... about Basic Income”[2].

Programmers are simply accepting whatever the owner class does to them [3] and calling it Technological Determinism, even if just indirectly.

> But, I would not respect myself and my intelligence if my idea of software and society would impair my vision: facts are facts, and AI is going to change programming forever.

Token gestures:

> What is the social soltion, then? Innovation can't be taken back after all. I believe we should vote for governments that recognize what is happening, and are willing to support those who will remain jobless.

Innovation can't be taken back (see: technological determinism; tech people are powerless to affect anything) so we should... vote for good governments. That are willing to support those who remain jobless.[0]

Keyword “willing”. Take away people's political leverage to strike. Now they may have no wealth. What are they to do? What is their political influence? The non-answer is to hope that the government will be WILLING to support their existence.

> And, the more people get fired, the more political pressure there will be to vote for those who will guarantee a certain degree of protection.

The more people get fired the less people with political leverage. The realpolitic trend would be the opposite of what is written here.

> But I also look forward to the good AI could bring: new progress in science, that could help lower the suffering of the human condition,

Every progress made in science can be artificially restricted. See foodstuff. We could apparently distribute enough to feed the world but that doesn't make as much money as throwing a lot of it away.

Progress for any given individual can be non existent unless it is evenly distributed.

> which is not always happy.

At least the article looks completely organic in terms off writing

Genre: I Have Anecdotes About AI And If You Don't See What I'm Seeing You Are Misguided.[4 ]

[1] Not a vocation. Simply the obvervation that the famous and respected programmers will have more weight outside their niche simply because of who they are.

[2] Basic Income hails from the right libertarian tradition. Leave the rich alone, give the commoner enough crumbs to survive. Later it was romanticized as a way for former programmers to go to their evergreen pastures of endless sideprjects.

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46526137

[4] https://fly.io/blog/youre-all-nuts/

[0] Let's vote and hope that Italy doesn't get a fascist prime minister next time.