Jan Lehnardt Feb 28

The industrial revolution also lead to a lot of misery, so we don’t have to do any better with the AI age is exactly the kind of thing that makes people say we learn nothing from history.

The bad examples are for learning and doing it better next time, not repeating the same patterns with the same predictable outcomes.

That is what human society is all about.

Show threadWulfy—Speaker to the machines

@janl

THIS!

The Intelligensia fucked the #workingclass when the programmable looms, and steam shovels took the proletariat jobs...

...now the capitalists and the machines came for the soft palmed office workers
...and Instead of swarthy arms swinging the pickaxe, the barricades are held by overweight, pasty geeks whose main weapon is a meme.

Feb 28 at 9:23amWeb