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@Enthalpiste @sortius @reading_recluse As I have mentioned above: there may have been other factors behind mechanical looms. An argument putting colonial interests in the driver's seat is, however, equally misguided. It was Adam Smith (if I recall correctly) in his Inquiry into the Wealth of Nations who emphasized that national prosperity is always a secondary effect of individuals seeking personal profit. If that is not entirely off the mark (and I'd like to say so much for poor old A. Smith), then the same is true for LLMs. AI has military implications for sure, and may have - horribile dictu - even neo-colonial uses. But if you are in the IT industry where manual implementation is the most expensive bottleneck, then using AI to implement plain old Taylorism is a perfectly sound strategy. No military or national or colonial interests required. Call it poor judgement on my side if you will, but this is what I see and what I hear from fellow IT managers. 🤷