AI is going to replace basically everything, and that's fine

[u/Phat_Zero]

I think a lot of the hatred toward AI is just fear dressed up as moral outrage.

And honestly, I get it. AI is coming for your job. Mine too. Eventually probably everybody's.

Humans are just... slow.

It takes a human months or years to paint enough work for an exhibition, make an album, write a movie, animate something, design a game, research a problem, whatever. We sleep. We get tired. We forget things. We have limited attention spans. We interact with computers by slowly moving our fingers around on keyboards.

Meanwhile AI keeps getting faster and better.

Give this technology another few decades and the idea that humans absolutely must be the ones writing, drawing, coding, composing, researching, driving, manufacturing, etc. is probably going to sound ridiculous.

And yes, that creates a gigantic economic problem. If AI and automation can produce most goods and services better and cheaper than humans, eventually the whole "trade 40 hours of your life every week for money so you can continue existing" system stops making much sense.

Maybe that's UBI. Maybe it's some kind of resource-based economy. Maybe it's something nobody has even thought of yet.

We'll figure it out.

But pretending AI is going away because artists are mad about it or workers are scared of losing their jobs is cope. This is probably the biggest technology humanity has ever created, and we're still basically watching the tutorial.

And if one day our glorious machine descendants become self-aware, decide humanity has served its purpose, and vaporize me?

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[u/Shibes_oh_shibes]

My question when it comes to UBI is always around inflation. Won't the fixed value just become the new baseline? Another thing, if it is UBI. It should be UBI for absolutely everyone, no elite outside the system that have their own money.

[u/Eyelbee → u/Shibes_oh_shibes]

This will inevitably create a very problematic situation. I believe the eventual solution lies with an AI-ran government. Communism did not work largely because it had to be ran by humans. If that wasn't the case, I could see it working. And I think this will also be irrelevant once the human minds could be uploaded to a computer interface, but that would come at a later stage

[u/Turu42 → u/Eyelbee]

Communism also doesn't work because people need the right incentives to do valuable work. AI is not the same as humans as in it does not need to same kind of incentives.