Klein: I agree that it is a revolutionary technology, that it is going to transform our economy on the scale of the Industrial Revolution.
But unlike the Industrial Revolution, which created huge numbers of jobs, the goal of this revolution is to eliminate jobs.
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Bread and roses.
Acyn
I wonder how much of the anti-AI backlash stems from the fact that for decades we supposedly didn’t have money for human needs and infrastructure and now that there’s a tech that could eliminate the need for many human labors, there is suddenly endless money available to make that tech. Huh.
Frida Kahlo, Viva la Vida, Watermelons, 1954
Jamal Elias posted this image of another beautiful book he’s published. I don’t have it yet, but I am inside it thanks to him. I wrote something about Punjabi Braj Arabic Persian Urdu literature. Very nice to be inside such books. @drkeegan.bsky.social is also inside. Free us
Contributor copy just arrived in the mail! I enjoyed writing up this short study: “Some medieval Islamic debates about sex and sexuality.”
