| ▲ | esafak 3 hours ago |
| Once we figure out the pesky problem of how we're going to pay for housing, food, and healthcare. |
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| ▲ | duskdozer 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I think the big names behind the AI companies already have that problem solved. A lot of people probably won't like the solution very much though. |
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| ▲ | z3t4 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| When machines are doing all the work - we no longer have to. |
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| ▲ | gf000 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | > the couple multi-trillioners will have all the wealth of the world, and it will all crumble down You mistyped it. | |
| ▲ | esafak 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Is that what you're going to tell your mortgage lender? |
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| ▲ | timcobb 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| I can't stop wondering myself.... I'm writing some software with AI and wondering, why am I doing this? Will anyone need this? Will anyone have money to buy this? Best I've come up with is we'll need to be adopted by technofeudlaist overlords to be our patrons like in the roman days |
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| ▲ | skeke 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | This is some next level cringe stuff that shows why software engineers are easy to exploit - no backbone | | | |
| ▲ | georgemcbay 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | > Best I've come up with is we'll need to be adopted by technofeudlaist overlords to be our patrons like in the roman days Continually progressing AI (combined with our current socioeconomic systems) throws a lot of uncertainty into our mid to long term future, but I don't think this is going to be what happens. There are billions more of "us" than of "them", people don't respond well en masse to a drastic worsening of their societal status and "they" are lagging very far behind on building their robot armies. If we poorly navigate this transition the outcome should be worrying them more than it worries us. | | |
| ▲ | timcobb an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Humans aren't sheep but in the broad average it seems like we have a strong tendency to fall inline. Fwiw I was mostly joking. I agree that the techno overlords have no reason to keep us, unlike in Roman times. | |
| ▲ | esafak 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I don't know how you would translate the strength of a robot army to a human one; they haven't fought yet. |
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