Was that the first one? That was the 1700's with, like, the first mechanical looms, so it's doubtful people even realised everything was changing. The whole "all manual labour will be replaced" idea seems most prominent in the mid 20th century, like with The Jetsons, which is between the second and third, if you're using this system.
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It's worth pointing out that if AI can be an engineer, it could definitely be a manager of other AIs. Why wouldn't the operators be replaced as well? Or even the lawyers who set up and enforce the corporate charters? Meatspace jobs seem to be safer, but "foundation models that can do physical jobs are just around the corner" is something you definitely hear. And of course at the other end Lemmy thinks AI is totally useless.
I suppose in the scenario you've defined, yes, being a blue collar worker is the main option, short of owning a bunch of stuff. And like any other technological revolution, eventually the upheaval will end, there will be fairly high employment, and a lot of things will be cheaper than before.
Yup. See: This thread.
If they want to hate Linux, they're allowed to. And that may be a plural or singular they.
I've seen negative numbers show up before on here. It's usually a federation thing, like someone joining didn't federate properly but them leaving did.
Physics happens right in front of us all the time. If you think it's wrong, you need to show how in order to be believed; a lot of people have measured it and gotten the traditional results.
however, i keep thinking that cosmic expansion will lift things out of a gravitational potential over time.
Heat death is about statistics, not gravity. A "typical" physical situation is a situation you can't run a machine or a living organism on, basically. The universe started in a "weird" (low entropy) situation, but seems to be wandering back towards a typical (high entropy) one as things happen.
Black holes outlasting everything else is a different thing that might happen in the far future.
or, in case cosmic expansion does not continue exponentially (but slows down over time), then the laws of physics would change over time;
Not sure where you heard that. Cosmic expansion staying too small to really notice at normal scales, and physics running the same way as ever is a definite possibility.
BTW, in the future, you'll get more nice, helpful replies if you frame it as "why doesn't X alternate possibility happen?". That's usually a great question and an opportunity to learn, and it doesn't disrespect anyone.
Each of those individually is still the most common.
Maybe you're the time traveler, watch out for butterflies. :)
That would be a fresh take, on Lemmy.
The weird thing is that the most socialist stratum by far now (the upper middle class) is also the one that owns most of the capital.
The lower class is getting more and more right-wing, if anything. It's definitely a new age.
Yeah, giving somebody's personal manifesto as a source is always a bad sign. I don't care if it's Naomi Klein or Ayn Rand. TBF I learned a bit about the history anyway.
If they dissolved the crown corporation and made it part of some ministry again, I doubt much would change.
Yeah, it's unclear if OP meant just daily delivery or mail in general, but there are still a lot of things that want snail mail.
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Also brass instruments and cymbals. Really just anything musical. And yeah, small motor vehicles.