alt Hacker NewsI really liked this quote: “If in the future we write less code and only review, these abilities are hard to train — what do we do?”
That's a different question than the included Luddite example, which I take as "what do we do to prevent change?".
Related, I've been maintaining a list of anti-tech Luddite movements here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1M_UjOPxpbKMYes5CcWRW...
I think the better Luddite position is "what can we do to protect humans?"
Which can be channeled into making the change healthy.
I heard a statistic that the average QOL and life expectancy didn't increase for most of the Industrial Revolution, once you account for the increase in pollution and disease (disease partly coming from greater urbanization). Yes, our lives are much richer now than they would've been 200 years ago, but it was pretty rough there for a while.
I'd like to think we can do better this time. Though, realistically, I'm not sure. Gilded Age 2.0, coming up