200 years ago people would have booed the industrial revolution. They shouldn't boo the amazing technology, but instead cheer for this liberation from toil and find ways to equitably distribute its benefits.

I agree with your premise, but let's not pretend we did a good job equitably distributing the benefits of the industrial revolution

Turns out the industrial revolution doomed us for short term luxury in the grand scheme of things.

> They shouldn't boo the amazing technology, but instead cheer for this liberation from toil

Come on, we're all adults and well-aware that if companies find a way to make people more productive, it just means they'll expect more, not that we'll get more free-time.

This post is delusional. There nothing liberating about generative AI and folks aren't investing hundreds of billions because they think it will liberate people.

Not everyone characterizes AI as "liberation from toil," and many are skeptical that any "equitable distribution of benefits" will occur in the first place. That's the point.

> cheer for this liberation from toil and find ways to equitably distribute its benefits

Why would you think that will happen? You seem aware of, for instance, the Industrial Revolution and what it has ultimately resulted in.

In France and Russia there also had been revolutions. They have found a way to distribute.