@cstross @KevinMarks there are genuine ways to unlock massive economic downfall and productivity boosts from software. But they look like http://moraware.com/
Not AI.
Also none of the Tech crowd built this. Or is built to understand that. There will be a lot of pain until we retool and reorient toward that.
It could be sped up. It would also be "cheap" at this scale. And it would be more equitable. But ... Policy makers have not realised yet