| ▲ | appplication 5 hours ago | |||||||
The challenge is not will robots fix toilets but will the economics support it if we end up with most of the world unemployed and without careers. Yes of course we can hand wave basic income and government intervention but reading the room (e.g. last 70+ years of US labor and capital trends) it’s not the most likely outcome, even if it is the most game theory optimal for all. Realistically the outcome of highly capable advanced AI is an economic dark age more than anything else. | ||||||||
| ▲ | UncleOxidant 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||
I read The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler a couple years back. In it AIs were running ocean fishing fleets. They figured out that robots were too expensive and prone to malfunction at sea, so they would have the robots kidnap people on shore, drug them and then have them wake up on the ships too far out in the ocean to be able to escape and thenm tell them they could get back home if they work. | ||||||||
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| ▲ | hnfong 27 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||
It's hilarious to read stuff like this. Robots automating everything and humans not needing to work was the stuff paradise fantasies were made of. Sure, it would be the end of capitalism (which, I guess you could describe as "economic dark age"), but people these days have so little imagination what life outside of capitalism looks like that ideal societies sound like a horror story. | ||||||||
| ▲ | ptidhomme 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||
The AI overlords will eventually consider the majority of human lives to be worthless. Let's face it, one day we will need to fight for mere survival. | ||||||||