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I dunno what big ideas out there are not being investigated to some extent. It's just that we've saturated the domain. Anything you can imagine we've done somet
by devoply 10y ago
I dunno what big ideas out there are not being investigated to some extent. It's just that we've saturated the domain. Anything you can imagine we've done something about it. I mean we don't have teleportation. We will soon have robotics to do everything. We will soon be colonizing space. I mean there is only so much you can do in the world and we're already doing it. Infinity is saturated. The problem is that we can't make society work with what we have invented. So the problem is not that we don't have ideas. The problem is that we can't make society work in the way that it has, and that's a good thing. But not for people who run society who don't want to lose power. But their time is up.
Shareholders are irrelevant. CEOs are irrelevant. And management is irrelevant. Just like employees are irrelevant. Anyone in the future can come up with an idea and be empowered to bring that idea to market through manufacturing done by robotics which is completely automated. You tell mama AI what to make and it makes it on demand for whoever wants it. Society needs complete re-engineering with completely new rules.
That's really the big idea. And yes we can not work on that within the framework of current system. Because it's transcending the system and requiring new rules.
- paulryanrogers 10y agoBarring some massive breakthroughs my guess is planet earth has far too few resources for that to become reality.
- devoply 10y agoResource constraints are an optimization problem. Some things don't get made because other things need to be made which are more important for the system to function. Right now these resource constraints are not even optimum. In that we waste tons of resources for no good use. We call this stuff garbage, packaging, waste food that's simply thrown in the trash. These are optimization problems that AI can solve much better than we ever could. It simply means that some things get made, and some things don't. It's as it is already, but probably much better. In the end the only reason to choose Capitalism is people. People are difficult to manage. Capitalism makes them easier to manage and to motivate them. Without people, you don't need Capitalism. Machines are not lazy. Machines don't need motivation. Machines don't need the sort of human management. Machines are faithful. Machines are true. Long live the machines!
- AstralStorm 10y agoNah, we don't even need AI to optimise such problems we made away. There is enough will, but said waste is also known as marketing and pandering to the human tastes.
- ArkyBeagle 10y agoMost breakthroughs enable substitution for scare resources. Most slow, evolutionary changes do too.