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<blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 9513841" data-attributes="member: 6779196">Certainly, but since it is no longer that time, the question of if the printing press taking their jobs was a net positive is a purely academic discussion. No currently-living person’s ability to continue living hangs in the balance. The same can not be said of the question of AI being a net good. Maybe, in a few hundred years, the people of the future will look back at this moment the same way we might look back at the invention of the printing press. But we don’t live a few hundred years from now, so that is, again, a purely academic concern. Right now, in the present day, AI does threaten currently-living people’s livelihoods, and that should be of greater concern to us, who also live in the present day, than academic whatabouts concerning past instances of technological upheaval or hypothetical futures after the dust of the current upheaval has settled. Sure, other dust has settled before and this dust will probably settle eventually too. But right now the dust is starting to get pretty darn unsettled and I’m concerned about shielding people’s eyes from it, pronto.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Charlaquin, post: 9513841, member: 6779196"] Certainly, but since it is no longer that time, the question of if the printing press taking their jobs was a net positive is a purely academic discussion. No currently-living person’s ability to continue living hangs in the balance. The same can not be said of the question of AI being a net good. Maybe, in a few hundred years, the people of the future will look back at this moment the same way we might look back at the invention of the printing press. But we don’t live a few hundred years from now, so that is, again, a purely academic concern. Right now, in the present day, AI does threaten currently-living people’s livelihoods, and that should be of greater concern to us, who also live in the present day, than academic whatabouts concerning past instances of technological upheaval or hypothetical futures after the dust of the current upheaval has settled. Sure, other dust has settled before and this dust will probably settle eventually too. But right now the dust is starting to get pretty darn unsettled and I’m concerned about shielding people’s eyes from it, [I]pronto[/I]. [/QUOTE]

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