Google researcher: 'tradition' is the social mechanism absorbing displaced work
moultano · x · 2026-10-20
moultano argues we already have a widely deployed social mechanism for keeping work that industrialization would otherwise displace: 'tradition.' His guess is we'll add a lot more to it in response to AI-driven displacement.
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