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It's not post-scarcity, it's post-labor. Which is a prerequisite for post-scarcity, but not sufficient. Resources, even allocated optimally by a superintellig
by ozr 3y ago
It's not post-scarcity, it's post-labor. Which is a prerequisite for post-scarcity, but not sufficient. Resources, even allocated optimally by a superintelligence, are still constrained based on the number of people living and the material contained on Earth.
(And, to be clear: I'm sharing their perspective, not mine).
- throwanem 3y agoOkay, but in that case "avoiding abuse" is no longer a problem for humans to solve, which is probably good in that it frees up time to try to figure out what to do when the paperclip maximizer no longer demurs from numbering hemoglobin molecules among its accessible resources.
- ozr 3y agoThere’s a spectrum of possibilities. What if GPT-10 obviates 80% of jobs and can’t automatically identify every human uniquely? This covers that step in the process.