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Re:Techno-Feudalism and the Rise of AGI: A Future Without Ec... by dinkumthinkum on Saturday July 05, 2025 @10:50PM (#44477432)
I’m curious as to why you think this is a good comparison. I hear it a lot but I don’t think it makes as much sense as its promulgators propose. Did fire, the wheel, or any of these other things threaten the very process of human innovation itself? Do you know not see a fundamental difference. People like to say “democratize” all the time but how democratized do you think you would feel if you and anyone you know couldn’t afford a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of, much less some hardware and electricity to run your local LLM?
Re:Techno-Feudalism and the Rise of AGI: A Future Without Ec... by squigz on Sunday July 06, 2025 @04:36AM (#44478910)
Did paint and canvas kill human innovation? Did the photograph? Did digital art?

"The very process of human innovation" will survive, I assure you.

Re:Techno-Feudalism and the Rise of AGI: A Future Without Ec... by nradov on Sunday July 06, 2025 @05:54AM (#44479279)
The invention of the scientific method fundamentally changed the very process of human innovation itself.