The steam engine replaced a lot of jobs. Tractors replaced a lot of jobs. Calcul...

tripledry · 2026-09-04T08:15:26.000000Z

If we truly would get robots with AGI doing anything a human can do but cheaper|better|reliable, it's not comparable at all to history IMO.

It's not "a lot of jobs", it's "all jobs".

XCSme · 2026-09-03T23:07:41.000000Z

Isn't the point of AGI that it can basically do any job?

sumedh · 2026-09-04T05:56:56.000000Z

Entire towns got decimated when their jobs went away, such people fill their lives in drugs and vote for politicians who promise to bring back jobs.

mf2hd · 2026-09-04T09:09:14.000000Z

So its either work or drugs? No wonder people choose drugs then.

wartywhoa23 · 2026-09-04T10:22:00.000000Z

And for those who don't get to find a job, there'll be a convenient WWIII to utilize themselves, just like there was WWI after the steam engine replaced a lot of jobs and WWII after tractors replaced even more.

WWI: -20 000 000 extra mouths to feed

WWII: -80 000 000 extra mouths to feed

WWIII: you extrapolate