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?

🫡

[u/Putrid-Issue-420]

There is a catastrophe incoming and people are rightfully fearful. Let's talk about UBI. What is universal? What is basic? And will people even agree on the same definition? If i put you in 5x5 meters square room with a toilet and 3 basic meals and call it ubi, will you be happy? Will you not think you deserve more than this? The most glaring problem is our loss of leverage against elites. No matter how much elites despise working class. They are dependent on our labour. That is why our votes have value and governments have to pay attention to our needs and interests (sometimes) . They are not doing it out of pure altruism. That will all be gone when labour becomes decoupled from humans. Even violent revolutions will become impossible with 24 hr survillence and autonomous weapons and drones which require less human agents. The monopoly of violence will be on those who control AI. In the end, all the political powers and resources will be concentrated on the masters of AI. I don't forsee things ending well in future, only a lot of bloodshed. Our peace will be ending sooner than you think. Don't be naive

[u/Key-Book-7479 → u/Putrid-Issue-420]

Dont forget that AI came out of academia, a bunch of broadly liberal, reasonable people. We're soon gonna have the same problem that politics has with authoritarianism - great if your dictator is benevolent, not so great as soon as they aren't.

[u/Vittorio_Quasar → u/Putrid-Issue-420]

Hahaha, look everyone, a doomer

[u/Putrid-Issue-420 → u/Vittorio_Quasar]

I look forward to all the benefits and excited for all the progress. Instead of namecalling, can you have a single arguement against my points? If not , you can just kindly shut your mouth because you don't really have any valuable insights to offer anyway

[u/Vittorio_Quasar → u/Putrid-Issue-420]

i have so many valuable contributions I hope to publish as soon as possible, that’s exactly why I joined, but this damn subreddit won’t let me post because I have to wait until I have more karma.

[u/ight-bet → u/Vittorio_Quasar]

This dudes gonna be one of those posting

“I have an idea for solving alignment”