3 ms·
Applied AI will be the next "nobody knew how fundamentally things would change." I don't believe in the singularity (at least as currently envisioned) but I do
by jwatte 10y ago
Applied AI will be the next "nobody knew how fundamentally things would change."
I don't believe in the singularity (at least as currently envisioned) but I do believe we need to figure out what a society must look like when most human beings are, almost literally, not useful for commercial employment.
Like, the whole tenets of a market economy and capitalist ownership will smash into the tenets of human worth and the function of society, with violence and consequences much greater than we've seen until now.
We can see it coming. It's obviously clear. And nobody in charge is taking about it, much less doing anything about it. A totally avoidable tragedy, walked into on purpose.
- averagewall 10y agoIf technology makes the cost of supporting a person's life is nearly zero, then the wages they'll demand can also approach zero. So a human can undercut a robot worker on cost. Currently, that doesn't happen because humans are so expensive to maintain - they'd sooner starve to death than work for less money than they need to keep themselves alive. But it's more than before. We do have a huge tertiary sector of the economy which is basically humans being employed to do low-value or unnecessary work because they're so plentiful and cheap.
- stevedonovan 10y agoThere's the fabled 'Singularity' (with the capital letter) or the usual meaning: something we cannot predict beyond. That's always a problem in prediction, because even if we can imagine a singularity, we don't know what follows.