alt Hacker News> so it's kind of annoying I'm not really going to see any upsides to an AI world either
I don't think the "permanent underclass" will see many upsides either. They certainly won't have the money to pay for it. I'm excluding myself in that statement because luckily I have access to large amounts of barbiturates.
The math community was not a global underclass. World wealth is increasing, the actual global underclass is seeing rapidly improving lives.
You may be seeing a loss of privilege due at least in part to the inevitable reversion to the mean of US economic dominance. But on a global scale, things are going well. AI will lead to a much larger pie.