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Re:The AI Threat Isn’t Skynet – It’s the End of the Middle C... by maverick_iceman on Friday February 10, 2017 @11:40PM (#13621048)
Exactly what were the bloody consequences of tractors or printing presses? If you just say a large number of wars/civil unrest took place during the industrial revolution then the periods before it were no less bloody.
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Re:The AI Threat Isn’t Skynet – It’s the End of the Middle C... by RandomOpinion on Monday February 13, 2017 @03:32PM (#13638485)
The Luddites and the textile industry come immediately to mind.

"At one time there were more British soldiers fighting the Luddites than there were fighting Napoleon on the Iberian Peninsula."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite

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