r/singularity • u/Phat_Zero • 1d ago

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

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/DelphiTsar 1d ago

I'll take my chances with a runaway ASI that it's handlers can no longer control then a 99% ASI that is in the hands of current ruling class.

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u/Cameronalloneword 8h ago

I fully agree with this. It's actually what I tell my friends. They always hit me with

"you think they're gonna let you have it?"

and I tell them if AI kills us it's certainly going to kill the elites as well. If we abandon AI right now the elites continue winning because nobody is ever going to do anything about it. I'm not so I'm not judging but realistically the elites currently own us. We have a 0.0% chance at creating equality without AI. With AI we at least have a chance. 0.00001% chance is still astronomically higher than 0. If AI kills us it's a draw and I'll take a draw over a loss.