"The Structure of Engineering Revolutions" by @johnallsopp https://webdirections.org/blog/the-structure-of-engineering-revolutions/

I feel like I've been waiting half a year for someone to write this essay. This makes more sense out of everything I've been reading, thinking, and feeling for the past few months than just about anything else I've read.

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@nolan @johnallsopp what’s the logical fallacy again where you only argue half the argument so it makes you look good?

This excellent essay is missing so many criticisms that people have with the current crop of GenAI and narrowly focusses on just the tech gains to fit a compelling narrative, it’s astounding.

“Yes many people suffered under the industrial revolution” is not an absolution to do it again, it is an imperative to never do it again.

@janl @nolan @johnallsopp or at least "we know damage that did, let's accept this and manage its adoption". Starting with not using fossil fuels as an energy source