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ilakshtoday at 5:54 AM1 replyview on HN

Are you sure there isn't something qualitatively different from general purpose AI and robotics as opposed to the type of automation that Marx knew?


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ahf8Aithaex7Naitoday at 12:14 PM

No, of course, you can only ever be certain of that in hindsight, through a historical lens. We’re not there yet. The question is simply whether Marx’s analysis was abstract and general enough at that point to still hold up in our present day, despite the changed circumstances. It’s surprisingly common for Marx’s analysis to become even more accurate later on than it was in his own time. But I can’t say whether anything has actually changed so fundamentally that it violates the underlying assumptions of his theory.