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Excuse me - It's Friday and I've finished working so I'm having a few beers... I went to Bronx Community College here in NYC. It was the only place that accepte

Excuse me - It's Friday and I've finished working so I'm having a few beers... I went to Bronx Community College here in NYC. It was the only place that accepted me close by. That was only six years ago or so. For me, that institution was the only way out of a life of working part-time bar gigs. I went on to CCNY and got a nice full-time programming job. Life is good yadda yadda. In my opinion, access to free education is key to social mobility. AGI doesn't change anything. It enriches everything. It's a tool. A bicycle for the mind (not to sound cliché). AGI, could be compared to the invention to writing. It doesn't invent anything new but reinforces what we know. Everyone gains from it, of course some more than others. But nonetheless AGI will enrich our lives, and hopefully help those struggling out of a life of hunger/poverty and into a a life that they can support themselves and their families.

ksey3 3y ago
OP is more worried about how it effects Ambitious people. Ambitious people are a small subset of the chimp troupe, and they usually end up in charge cause they dont mind doing mindless bullshit everyday, as long as they get their status elevated. Society calls this activity 'hard work' and rewards it cause it keeps the factory lights on. When the chimps run a factory/institution/military/govt you need a "socio-economic ladder" structure to keep the chimps in line. A hierarchical structure based on domination and obedience, rewards and punishment, respect and trust and even that thing called love. Will we require all this when robots do things better? Sort of like in sports you have these ever optimizing robotic humans practicing night and day, to gain some milli second advantage over some other robot. For what? So nike and coke can sell more unnecessary shit to everyone. Now if coke and nike can entertain you with two AGI robots instead, ever optimizing to entertain and "break records" every other game (for optimal attention capture) then what do we need sports stars for? When robots do what robots do - their 'hard work', 'calculated risk' night and day, day in day out, do we call it Ambition to climb the 'socio-economic ladder'?
- richk449 3y ago
  You seem to have captured some truth. But isn’t it also true that the cushy life is possible because of the previous generations strivers? It was Glug that caught only the minimum amount of animal needed to survive that built the modern world, it was Sven that spent his spare time figuring out how to make tools. Maybe life is cushy enough now that we can stop trying? But don’t you think that if we put I. Another hundred years of hard work, we will look back and think of the 2020 life as pretty brutal by comparison to 2120?

ksey3 3y ago

OP is more worried about how it effects Ambitious people. Ambitious people are a small subset of the chimp troupe, and they usually end up in charge cause they dont mind doing mindless bullshit everyday, as long as they get their status elevated. Society calls this activity 'hard work' and rewards it cause it keeps the factory lights on. When the chimps run a factory/institution/military/govt you need a "socio-economic ladder" structure to keep the chimps in line. A hierarchical structure based on domination and obedience, rewards and punishment, respect and trust and even that thing called love. Will we require all this when robots do things better? Sort of like in sports you have these ever optimizing robotic humans practicing night and day, to gain some milli second advantage over some other robot. For what? So nike and coke can sell more unnecessary shit to everyone. Now if coke and nike can entertain you with two AGI robots instead, ever optimizing to entertain and "break records" every other game (for optimal attention capture) then what do we need sports stars for? When robots do what robots do - their 'hard work', 'calculated risk' night and day, day in day out, do we call it Ambition to climb the 'socio-economic ladder'?

richk449 3y ago
You seem to have captured some truth. But isn’t it also true that the cushy life is possible because of the previous generations strivers? It was Glug that caught only the minimum amount of animal needed to survive that built the modern world, it was Sven that spent his spare time figuring out how to make tools. Maybe life is cushy enough now that we can stop trying? But don’t you think that if we put I. Another hundred years of hard work, we will look back and think of the 2020 life as pretty brutal by comparison to 2120?