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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jfdlsjfd" data-source="post: 9517672" data-attributes="member: 42856">I have deeply considered that. Remember when bespoke clothing was the craze? And then suddently, department store happened (it's depicted really well in Zola's Au bonheur des dames) and people could afford more clothes? A century later, we have most people owing enough clothes to be able to change them to follow the fashion.Same with cars. It used to be a really expensive product, and Henry Ford replaced people by factories and BAM, now everyone owns a car.Same with agriculture. Replacing people by beasts of burden, and later by agricultural machines, has made the prospect of famine nearly irrelevent in most countries thanks to the much the improved yields.Right now, I am typing this answer on a computer. At the time of the space program, computer was a job, it was a person who did calculations. They were replaced entirely.So I have considered it, and found that replacing people with machines in order to increase the production and reduce the cost and turn a luxury product into something everyone can afford is a great thing. Sure, it forces people who used to be hand-made carmakers to switch jobs, but I found the deal to be a net positive for society anyway. We are much better off in our machine-driven world than at the outset of the 19th century. In AI's case, we need to deal with the current image sellers the same way we did with replaced farmhands, tailors and car designers. It's not something new and we have two centuries of experience in how to deal with this kind of change, so we might even get better at it collectively.Don't you own a factory-made car? Don't you wear factory-made clothes? Accepting progress is natural for all of us. There are still producers that do hand-made products in these fields, but nobody is expecting anyone to buy from them -- if people choose do to so, it's a personnal choice among others.Disagreement and debate can stay civil.</blockquote>

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