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How are we going to order our society when none of us can compete with machines? It used to be that everyone could contribute something- even grandma could chur
by adamwong246 3y ago
How are we going to order our society when none of us can compete with machines? It used to be that everyone could contribute something- even grandma could churn butter and dullards could pull a plow. But technology has made it so that only a few people can really contribute anymore. Most people's labor just isn't that valuable anymore, relative to the machines. We have the tech to live to 100 but no clear way, or reason, to afford it. It all points to a coming crisis point when we must radically alter the social contract.
- idiotsecant 3y agoI can imagine an AGI that might appreciate the beauty of self-replicating intelligence designed only by the pressures of the natural world, in the same way that we might appreciate the occasionally brutal beauty of a healthy forest or an ant hill or something like that. I could also imagine the extreme other end of an AGI that in built on something analogous to a modern LLM, where it's views of the world are so intrinsically human that it is fascinated with all aspects of the human experience and keeps us around like pets. In short, I think the only reasonable outcome is that we become something somewhere in between pets and residents of a wilderness preserve. In neither situation are we members of something like a society we might recognize today.
- hotpotamus 3y agoMaybe the machines can learn the value of human life, since it seems to have escaped us. Wasn’t that the idea behind “Terminator 2”?