Of course that might come off as basically Thomas Pynchon

I would love to see an early 20th Century Lovecraftian prequel to Accelerando where the Vile Offspring are corporations, as implied by @cshalizi.bsky.social in this legendary blog post:

bactra.org/weblog/699.h...

In that sense, AI already kicked people out of most of the best jobs decades or centuries ago. Now everyone just serves the big machine, and we are fighting over who gets to keep working in some bunk industry instead of for the capacity to take care of ourselves without oppressive superstructures.

Definitely. And this has been going on for a long time. The only way this is an "AI unemployment" issue is if you consider the inhuman aggregations of industrial modernity a form of AI (which I do, and think people should, because it affords much clearer thinking about the alignment problem).

Thanks! And they had it going on.

Post deleted? Ah well.

I wish I had known that before writing this! Worth inclusion.

<developing an inexplicable dread of drawn butter and Old Bay>

this rules

Ah right on! Yeah, that was a good run. Sorry to miss you! Hit me up any time. Still in the game, just not there.

Indeed! 😇 But the bastards locked my QR code. Who are you and what are you doing in Santa Fe?