[odessacubbage]

>It's not clear that any development in AI will be any different than the transition to mechanization in the 19th and early 20th century.

so you mean utterly hellish?

>https://martyrmade.substack.com/p/martyrmade-22-whose-americ...

[chrisco255]

Coal miners protesting drastic conditions in dark shafts in raw mineral extraction mines in 1921 doesn't tell you anything about mechanization and the effect it had on people's lives, not to mention electrification. It wasn't possible to mechanize coal extraction until later and even today with superior tooling and safety conditions, coal extraction remains dangerous.

In the meantime, for vast majority, it improved standards of living, hourly wages, etc. You can't just look at arbitrary data points in early 1900s or late 1800s. Hellish wars, famines, civil strifes, rebellions, assassinations, religious battles, etc go back millenia.

> https://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/2018/01/historic_photos_f... > https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/ford-factory-wor... > https://worldsfairchicago1893.com/ >