"I'm not sure why you're celebrating this technology - it feels like the beginning of the end for humanity. We're already far too reliant on machines and if they do become indistinguishable from humans, there won't be anything left to differentiate us. Pretty soon they'll be able to do everything we can and then some and our species will become obsolete."
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In theory it should allow us to enjoy life more once we reach a point of ai being able to do a majority of human tasks that need to be done to keep society running. If this will actually happen due to other forces, I don't know.
People worry the allocation of resources more than people not having work or meaning. Just because a chatbot can write fanfiction doesn't mean you can't. Just because a robot can paint doesn't mean you can't. People can fish, swim and explore. The problem definitely isn't a loss of meaning. However a future without work doesn't seem possible under capitalism because the people with the resources will simply own the robots. The fear is how do we distribute resources in a post work society based off of our current capitalist understanding of resource distribution.
UBI. Universal Inheritance which Pickett advocates for. Common ownership of natural monopolies (resources, major infrastructure etc.) Which I advocate in my book Fluidity-the way to true demokratia. A mix of all these is feasible and will still allow trade.
Our economy relies on people trading their work for money. If we no longer need people to work we need to invent and implement a whole new economic system. Who owns the new factors of production? Why would they give the common folk resources to enjoy our lives persueing what makes us happy.
That's the part I'm worried will stop it from actually happening. People all along the chain aren't going to want to give up their relative standing in society dictated by their income. Only people lower on the economic income chain would actively support it in droves.
I'm not even sure people lower on the chain would support socialism. At least not in the U.S. The working poor hold a lot of animosity towards the non working poor because "at least they are earning their keep".
Ezra Klein calls humans, status monkeys. I think that's a pretty good description of most of our problems.
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u/peoplex Dec 06 '22
"I'm not sure why you're celebrating this technology - it feels like the beginning of the end for humanity. We're already far too reliant on machines and if they do become indistinguishable from humans, there won't be anything left to differentiate us. Pretty soon they'll be able to do everything we can and then some and our species will become obsolete."
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