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I don’t really buy the second half of this at all. It obviously doesn’t generalize very well. Is it bad if there are fewer coal miners in the future as a result of modernization? bsky.app/profile/euge...

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social

To take an example, it is unequivocally a good thing that we now have 700+ new proofs of interesting things. It is bad if there are fewer mathematicians in the future as a consequence (though of course there might be more instead somehow)

EmNudge

@emnudge.dev

to be clear - I don’t think it’s likely or even good, but it’s certainly not obvious if it’s correct. Why is it valuable to preserve an occupation outside of its merits? Is it just longing for an experience made unavailable? Like seeing the extinction of particular merchant or craftsman?

EmNudge

@emnudge.dev

The biggest harm (imo) is in how quickly these things happen. The biggest risk to a miner losing their job is loss of income and purpose. If they immediately got a fulfilling well paid job, I doubt there’d be much backlash

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