When will ChatGPT replace C-suite executives, I wonder? Just think of the savings!

Why stop at C-suite? A bunch of chatGPT agents working together could operate a company fully automated.

They could function as consumers too.

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you are free to not use the technology. the luddites went burning down other people's factories, so not super surprising to me that the state responded with force.

But people don't use the word "Luddite" as some sort of worker protesting for the sake of vengeance at the government that abandoned them. People talk as if Luddites were some backwards people, that failed to adopt technology and died because they couldn't adapt. If being a Luddite involves a civil war, it is no longer an argument in favor of never questioning technological progress.

And the Sons of Liberty threw other people's tea in the Boston harbor. They were free to buy tea elsewhere.

The state made machine breaking a capital crime. That is, if you break or destroy a machine, you can be executed.

Many who were tried and convicted of machine breaking were accused or guilty by association, or literally broke machines, and were executed. States responded with death and contempt, not merely force.