This statement assumes local maxima don’t exist and greedy short term optimization always leads to long term benefit.

> assumes local maxima don’t exist and greedy short term optimization always leads to long term benefit.

Even if your stated assumption was baked into the original comment, which is doubtful: the historical record shows that we will keep relearning The Bitter Lesson and each community will pretend what they do for a living is exceptional and immune because of xyz. The screams will get louder when the "greedy" and "dumb" automation comes knocking and it turns out nothing was truly immune or "nuanced ".

Getting some new hobbies may be in order, it's a Brave New World.