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When someone comes up with a general AI, I have a feeling its going to want to be paid...
by andyv 8y ago
When someone comes up with a general AI, I have a feeling its going to want to be paid...
- londons_explore 8y agoThe only reason we pay people to do work is because there is a finite slow-adjusting supply of people, and people have 'running costs' (eg. Housing). AI would have a near-unlimited supply (limited only by chip fabrication facilities), and very low 'running costs'. Sure it might 'like' to be paid, but the market isn't stacked in its favour. On the flip side, parallels could be drawn with the slave trade (nearly unlimited number of potential slaves to bring from Africa, lowish maintenance costs), and those conditions didn't last long...