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>humans wont be hired to do anything if humans are the worst at doing literally any task. and what are the consequences of such a world? An economic system has
by somewhat_drunk 4y ago
>humans wont be hired to do anything if humans are the worst at doing literally any task. and what are the consequences of such a world?
An economic system has two purposes: to create wealth, and to distribute wealth.
The purpose of an economic system is not to provide people with jobs. Jobs are just the best way we've found thus far to create and distribute wealth.
If no one has to work but wealth is still being created, then we just need to figure out a new way to distribute wealth. UBI will almost certainly be a consequence of the proliferation of AI.
- 00F_ 4y agono, the highest level purpose of an economy is to ensure the survival and growth of the meta-organism that hosts it. it figures out the most efficient way to produce all the goods and services that power the meta-organism and allow it to survive. the only reasons humans persist is because we are the best. if another country wages war with us, humans will be the winner no matter the outcome. but with AGI, humans wont always be the winner. even if we managed to create some kind of arrangement where the goods and services created by an automated economy were distributed to a group of humans, that would end very quickly because some other class of meta-organism, made into the meanest and fittest meta-organism by natural selection among the machines, a gnarled and grotesque living nightmare, would destroy that last enclave of humans perhaps without even realizing it or trying to. axiomatically, long term, your idea doesnt work.
- somewhat_drunk 4y agok