| ▲ | Chance-Device 3 hours ago | |
Nobody has one. If labor stops having value the economy will stop working and society will break down far in advance of building the infrastructure necessary for the promised AI abundance. I like the idea of being ”post-scarcity” as much as the next guy, but I don’t understand how we get there. It’s a project in itself, it doesn’t just happen by magic, and nobody is actively trying to make it happen or has any logistical idea of what it involves. We’ll also lose a huge number of jobs as soon as true AGI comes on stream, by which I mean the kind of AI that no longer acts like somebody who has read all the world’s books but can’t figure out that you always need to drive to the carwash. We’ll lose these jobs and there will be no super abundance at that point, and not even government support. There is the option of passing laws requiring companies to retain human employees. That to me is about the only viable stopgap measure. | ||