@fasterthanlime @anildash well put.Don’t forget though, they’re also a climate-crisis-accelerator (compounder even):https://disconnect.blog/generative-ai-is-a-climate-disaster/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-21/ai-tech-giants-hide-dirty-energy-with-outdated-carbon-accounting-rulesWe can’t leave out that all-impactful externality as if the productivity improvement on its own comes for free.Lack of productivity is not what’s holding our society back. I’d take lower productivity in exchange for societal abundance of energy, water, land, compute etc. any day.