collapse is opportunity if we can control our fear as its collapsing around us.

Long piece... I kinda tuned out a bit after the first few sections, particularly because there's a big "if" at the beginning along the lines of "IF we assume all these job replacement scenarios are correct...." I'm much more on the Doctorow boat on this one, that "AI can't do your job, but an AI sa...

Also I think it's worthwhile interrogating where the "Venn diagram" overlap is between "stuff AI can actually do well" and "stuff that makes a profit." Keeping in mind that *most* software development isn't actually profitable....

To me Owen's proposition in this article that we get the "worst of both worlds" of automation seems obviously contradictory. Either AI had modest productivity gains, and we can't automate that many jobs, or we do automate many jobs and productivity skyrockets. The combination of low/no productivit...