dlmanning

> Personally I strongly reject the idea that labor displacement is unethical.

Oh, well if you STRONGLY reject it I guess that's it.

> It will be a serious problem to deal with, but that doesn't make it unethical.

What WOULD make it unethical?

> The steam engine displaced labor. That doesn't make it unethical.

The steam engine also created new jobs to replace what it eliminated. It wasn't a mostly one-sided wealth transfer to the elite.

Apologies. I misread the comment to which you replied and gave them unwarranted credit for not making the same tired point about calculators.

Oh okay. So where's the point where AI starts to encourage the development of a new useful skill set among people early in their careers?

Do you... think heart surgery has become LESS dependent on surgical skill in the last 100 years? Cardiovascular surgeons spend MORE time in training now than they did 100 years ago.

Not all of us think encouraging people to outsource their own thinking to proprietary models is actually "progress."

Understanding math absolutely makes a calculator more useful to you though.

It's the point where you expend effort to learn a useful skill.

The "privileged caste" being people who actually expended the effort to learn things for themselves?