Understandably, the frustration is also around "what happens then?"

Everyone is wondering about what happens if (when?) it finally comes true

We really have to figure out what comes next for your average person. I think the reason no one wants to talk about this is because the answers aren't great. The average person not going to be living a great life in all likelihood, once we have no access to capital anymore

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overgard 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yup, that's the weird thing about the booster argument. "We finally achieved it, we're no longer important or the dominant species and Sam Altman and Dario Amodei run what's left of the world from their bunker!" Yay?

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matheusmoreira 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Either we achieve a post scarcity society, or we become a permanent underclass if not soylent. Those are the only outcomes I believe are possible.

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OtomotO 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If we don't have access to capital, we will abolish capital altogether.

This still backfire to the oligarchs

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danelski 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Are you sure the capital-enabled won't abolish us for trying to do so?

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bluefirebrand 7 hours ago | parent [-]

They will certainly try, but they don't have the capability yet

It's probably a really bad idea to keep building them autonomous killing machines though

	▲	danelski 7 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I wouldn't be surprised if multiple nation-states already had them without calling them such because 'Look, someone pushed a button 3 hours ago before it engaged'. Once the private capital gets their hands on them, we immediately transition to cyberpunk no matter what else happens in the world.
	▲	malnourish 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Hyper proliferation of drones seems to end in a state of mutually assured destruction, from my armchair.

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inigyou 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The average person will not have any life in all likelihood. That is the end goal of capitalism. However, shortly after everyone dies, the remaining survivors - the likes of Musk, Thiel etc - will find themselves roughly equal and needing to establish a new hierarchy.