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Manager types want to manage other people. Manager types basically run the world. They don’t want to manage robots, they want to manage over people. The manager
by 2devnull 3y ago
Manager types want to manage other people. Manager types basically run the world. They don’t want to manage robots, they want to manage over people. The manager types will find ways to manage over people no matter what. It’s hardwired. Humans will always employ other humans because of this. Some people have told me they like to go out to eat primarily because they like to be waited on by human waitstaff. These people who need to have power over others are the people in charge; politicians, managers, rulers. For this reason it’s likely that ai will not replace human labor, merely reduce the cost and quality of life for workers.
- IKantRead 3y agoInterestingly enough the Marxist variation on this is that, if we assume Marx's Labor Theory of Value (I know, big assumption for most, but let's just go with it and see what the conclusion would be): All surplus value is extracted from human labor, automation (including AI) is just efficiency which is used by Capitalist to gain temporary advantage over other Capitalist. This advantage is always temporary. The second part of this logic is quite apparent: Assuming AI is game changing, early adopters will see an initial advantage, but in the long run everyone will have to use AI or no longer be competitive. But the LTV (remember, for the sake of exploration we're assuming this is true) argues that value is always extracted as surplus (i.e. unpaid) labor from humans. So LTV would predict that if AI truly replaces humans we would ultimately see a decline in the surplus value that Capitalists extract, i.e. we would b faced with an economic crisis. So LTV would predict that we would have either just as much or more hours of human labor happening or we would enter an economic crisis.