USSR was technophilic and invented space travel.
DPRK is technophilic.
PRC is technophilic and is the world leader in many advanced technologies.
Marx analyses technological progress deeply. The increase in productive power that results from the creation and rollout of new technologies (including AI) is what raises material standards of living.
a replicator would destroy the standard of living for people who were put out of work by the replicator, because now they can't make rent
well yea under capitalism but under not capitalism the replicator would simply replicate them new homes
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Yea that'll be 100 dollars for the therapy
yes, but we live under capitalism
yea but wouldn't the capacity for technological progress to improve standards of living be a property inherent to it and something which is restrained by capitalism, an outside force
yes, but as i said, we live under capitalism
advances in automation under capitalism can occasionally increase the standard of living for some, at the cost of completely fucking the standard of living for the people who no longer have a job because of it
yea but that's capitalism tho, not technology
yes, but this post is a response to the "ai" bad discourse in another thread, which is not a theoretical discussion about the future, but the effects of technological advances in the here and now