> The future may reduce the economic prosperity and push humanity to switch to some different economic system (maybe a better system).

Humans never truly produce anything; they only generate various forms of waste (resulting from consumption). Human technology merely enables the extraction of natural resources across magnitudes, without actually creating any resources. Given its enormous energy consumption, I strongly doubt that AI will contribute to a better economic system.

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diggan 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

> Humans never truly produce anything; they only generate various forms of waste

What a sad way of viewing huge fields of creative expressions. Surely, a person sitting on a chair in a room improvising a song with a guitar is producing something not considered "waste"?

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howtofly 4 days ago | parent [-]

It's all about human technology, which enables massive resource consumption.

I should really say humans never truly produce anything in the realm of technology industry.

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diggan 4 days ago | parent [-]

But that's clearly not true for every technology. Photoshop, Blender and similar creative programs are "technology", and arguably they aren't as resource-intensive as the current generative AI hype, yet humans used those to create things I personally wouldn't consider "waste".

	▲	howtofly 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		The real issue is determining how much non-renewable resource consumption is justified for these "valuable" things? Note that we are always inclined to value ourselves too much. I agree the things you mentioned are valuable in the very common sense and I deliberately assign them no value to the avoid the above issue.

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mcherm 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> Humans never truly produce anything; they only generate various forms of waste

Counterpoint: nurses.