And the comparison with the industrial revolution is a poor analogy because the industrial revolution never proposed as a goal to automate humanity in totality, merely to automate human drudgery.

AI is an anti-industrial revolution, because it proposes to start with the most fulfilling aspects of human existence: writing, the arts, and to automate people engaged in those jobs, and to only later come to automate human physical labour. It’s a regression.

If angels came from the heavens and offered to take care of our needs, would you fight them?

I think it’s a coincidence that it’s threatening some kinds of artists first - I don’t see that distinction lasting long with the advent of plugins, and art has a fundamental, semi- necessary human quality that is not present in knowledge work.

> If angels came from the heavens and offered to take care of our needs, would you fight them?

That entirely depends on what price the angels would extract for doing so.

Also it will be fucking terrible at those things. In a thousand years middle schoolers will learn about this era of vacuous, meaningless, copycat art as a dark age.

… it is? Medicine, food, entertainment, rationalism? You’d trade all of that for… what, agriculture work in a feudal society?

I’d love if you could elaborate or link to a good argument on this (besides the Unabomber…) I’m curious.

> You’d trade all of that for… what, agriculture work in a feudal society?

Nope. But that's not the only other option.