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lexicality 7 hours ago

> Abundance and growing the pie for everyone is also an outcome if this is done right.

Do you genuinely believe there's any chance that's going to happen?

boznz 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I do, because the alternative is unthinkable.

nickvec 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I would argue that "abundance and growing the pie for everyone" is even more unfathomable given how things are structured currently. The wealth gap will continue to widen until something gives.

DrProtic 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Can’t believe your comment is being downvoted.

Covid clearly showed how crisis can only benefit the rich and powerful.

AI being used to cut the headcount can somehow be, good? It will just fill the pockets of the powerful.

impossiblefork 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Why do you think that the fact that the alternative is unthinkable is a reason it won't happen?

Are you also sure that it is unthinkable to those running these companies? I wouldn't be surprised if these models end up being used for internal security-- that people would try to keep an extremely unequal society stable by surveillance and massive analysis capabilities. I think it's apparent that some use of this sort already occurs and that these companies are already participating.

array_key_first 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Well then given that one side is "the situation remains neutral or very slightly improves" and the other side is "unthinkable atrocities", I think it's only rational to focus on the "unthinkable atrocities" part. Ideally, we should be focusing all our energy into making sure that doesn't happen.

cindyllm 5 hours ago | parent [-]

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jyounker 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Closing your eyes doesn't make the danger go away.

yoyohello13 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

What? This makes no sense. You don't like the alternative so you choose to believe in the best outcome?

senordevnyc 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Looking at the last few hundred years of our civilization, absolutely!

MiguelX413 7 hours ago | parent [-]

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senordevnyc 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Substantive.

Try this, I'm genuinely curious: if you were going to be born as a random human somewhere on earth, what year would you prefer that to happen?

cleversomething 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

If I can choose the US specifically, then sometime in the 1950s. I think Baby Boomers in the US will go down as the single luckiest generation on earth in terms of socioeconomic opportunity.

MiguelX413 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

1700s Okinawa

gazebo2 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

oh god are we really doing this? just ignore the accelerated decline of virtually the entire world because we have medicine and Netflix?