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I don't think Marx wrote much about AI and what he did write about didn't lead to much happiness when people tried to implement it.

You can see that computers doing the work will lead to a different society without bringing Marx into it.


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kranke15510/14/2024

One of the Marx's points, afaik, is that industrial and post industrial capitalism is always aiming to reduce the cost of labor through technology. Communism would occur when such a diminutive amount of people could produce most of value that communism was the only solution (the actual mechanism is more complicated, I think, but I think the simplification is helpful). Sound familiar?

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