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were they just letting claude push to production with no reviews

What

were they not before lol

it would be so much worse if it was man

Even then, modern farm automation is a long way off from the Industrial Revolution, of which there were several. I have no idea what your quibble is. Humans have been using various tools to multiply effort since before we came down from the trees.

There’s no reason to distinguish this kind of automation from that which involved…what, exactly? Machines of grander scale? The only difference is the compressed timeline and rapid growth.

The Ancient Greeks had gears!

why is it bewildering. all tools have consequences. the Industrial Revolution is not the only example of widespread rapid changes in mechanization (fire, Aurignacian technology, the wheel, the chariot, domestication, pottery, and so on).

the cotton gin as regression is interesting to me here bc automation of picking (not just processing) in the early 1900s is why so many people were able to leave the South for better lives in the North. almost impossible to find a general prescription for “automation good” or “automation bad”.

yeah my great grandparents were born into a sharecropping family and moved to a fledgling mill town to work in the cotton mill, which was certainly its own form of miserable labor but it meant a vastly better overall quality of life.

plagiarism is good

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yeah there’s not really a lot of appreciation for how technology rapidly changes labor in kind even if not in amount. And kind is important! Most of the people who would’ve been subsistence farmers now do something else, which might still be dreadful, but it’s not subsistence farming.

the cliff is a tool!

this is probably half of the <blank> studies phds and a decent amount of the social science ones. tho there’s people in nutrition that are like this too.

“Look, it’s not quite clear what’s happening, but there is at least some possibility that there are currently mines in the Strait of Hormuz” seems like exactly the sort of thing that’s going to make insurance companies chill out

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the work we do goes beyond subsistence, principally because we also pay for _someone else's_ subsistence (i.e. our employer). whether that's how it should be or not is a irrelevant, but the fact that social reproduction is invisibilized is a major problem both with this and with OP's nonsense.

a lot of 'lay people' often let their biases run amuck with things like this. hunter gatherers do not have jobs. all the work they do is to subsist. it's a completely different kind of labour that, in our society, doesn't really have a direct analogue.

not to invoke credentials here but this is the kind of mistake you make when you're not an anthropologist. Easy to run a gotcha like this if you define labor as a job and nothing else. I suppose none of these modern people need to feed children, clean, cook, maintain a household, etc.

lol this is like immediately falsifiable because, naturally, they do not consider social reproduction to be work. no one who works 40 hours a week only toils for 40 hours. no one (except maybe OP) is claiming this is a _better_ life, just that it is one with less _time_ (not effort) spent on labor.

I need people to understand that basically any tool is automation. An arrowhead is automation.

Why? Because the alternative is like idk squeezing an animal until it dies

presumably trans chaser Genghis Khan is too captivated by This Shaman That Still Drinks Piss The Old Fashioned Way

compared to working an 8 hour day, of which only a portion could subsist you, then doing all of these tasks of social reproduction? yeah no early humans had a tremendous amount of free time.

gonna process some wild horse piss yourself?

like say you killed a raccoon and I found a bunch of berries, that's pretty much enough calories for both of us.

hunter gatherer societies have very limited specialization and only need to worry about immediate subsistence, which is why it works at small scales so well. a person who hunts and fish everyday can get enough calories to survive in just a few hours really.

this is actually basically true but it's reactionary to imagine primitive communism as anything close to an ideal

virulent misogyny, I'm sorry but that's all this is

do i even want to know what she thinks trans people will do in her hypothetical world

it's like lamenting that the cotton gin put slaves out of work.

the only one in my family who remembers manual farming are like 70 years old. my grandma told me stories of picking tobacco growing up. but even by then, she lived in the city, and would commute out to the fields to pick them. that's not community.

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there havent been farming communities in the US for decades, the labor is too transient for sustained settlement (hence, migratory workers) and too automated with infrastructure too poor to sustain an educated community.