slaweks t1_je8220m wrote on March 30, 2023 at 2:09 AM

Reply to comment by Necessary-Meringue-1 in [D] FOMO on the rapid pace of LLMs by 00001746

Really? Average worker life has not imporoved over last 200 years?

Necessary-Meringue-1 t1_je84su5 wrote on March 30, 2023 at 2:30 AM

Of course it has, but those are hard fought gains that are primarily results of WWI, WWII, and the early phases of the Cold War, not productivity gains.

There is no natural law that productivity gains get handed down. Just compare the years 1950-1970 in the US, where life for the average worker improved greatly, to the 1980s onward, since when we've been in a downward trend. There's steady productivity gains over all that.