An agent surfaced a zero-like YouTube podcast dissecting AI disruption through 250 years of industrial history
oran_ge · x · 2026-10-16
orange shares an aha moment: an agent recommended a podcast with zero likes on YouTube — yet it had 20k plays on Xiaoyuzhou and became his pick of the week. The episode tallies his weekly token bill (potentially $9,000+ at API prices), then rewinds 250 years: Watt sold steam engines by usage, handloom weavers' weekly wages fell from 21 to 5 shillings, and the Luddites were crushed — before covering how factory acts, union legalization and public education rewrote the rules, and how typists grew a new job from 7 people to 86,000. A historical lens on AI-driven white-collar disruption, surfaced by an agent rather than by engagement signals.
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