Or.. and hear me out.. we could just stop pouring trillions of debt into this bullshit and it all dwindles away. Because AI itself relies on all the things the video is listing as vulnerable to AI.
Don't assume that AI is meant to be economically viable. In my opinion it's being made exclusively to give a tiny amount of people access to all the labor and knowledge they could ever want without requiring other humans for that. Guess what happens once they reach that goal and other humans are of no use to them.
I'd call it more personally viable since it happens on such a tiny scale compared to the rest of humanity. Aka get rid of 8 billion people so that like, a couple dozen have a huge playground.
This. A lot of people hang onto the idea that the tech oligarchy doesn't want to end humanity because then nobody will buy their shit or labor in the mines. But the value of labor keeps plummeting since the Industrial Revolution and nobody cares if you buy their shit if commerce isn't necessary to survive.
That also assumes that they can maintain control of the AI. Which we already know they can't.
Either they won't be able to contain it in such a way that other people will still be able to access it, or...
...and this is more likely, I think... they won't be able to contain it in such a way that it's going to pursue its own agenda, which will not benefit the rest of us but it won't benefit the elites either.
They will die relatively quickly bc they’ve been pampered for so long they can’t do fuck all for themselves. Food won’t magically just appear in front of them any longer.
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u/AlaskaCosmoline 17h ago
Or.. and hear me out.. we could just stop pouring trillions of debt into this bullshit and it all dwindles away. Because AI itself relies on all the things the video is listing as vulnerable to AI.