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To be completely honest, I think the "exit strategy" for EVERYONE here is to go into activism / politics. AI can be a huge booster for many things, but it's go
by oulipo 3y ago
To be completely honest, I think the "exit strategy" for EVERYONE here is to go into activism / politics.
AI can be a huge booster for many things, but it's going to increase inequalities WILDLY, even for people who thought they were "safe and out of reach"
If we make robots work for us, the benefits should be equitably redistributed to everyone (and that means everyone, even to other countries through subsidies, etc)
This means: TAX THE RICH, REDISTRIBUTE, PROTECT DEMOCRACY
this is the only way forward (and also: PROTECT THE ENVIRONMENT)
and as much as AI might help to make discoveries it's going to:
- burn electricity and pollute, increasing climate change (think about people replacing "watching Netflix" by "let's burn 5h of GPU to generate my own personal movie for tonight, and repeat that every night, multiplied by 7 billion people)
- increase inequalities (why would Jeff Bezos and Sam Altman get 99% of the profit of a tech which is largely developed through the shared contribution of ALL OF HUMANITY in the form of texts, images, videos on the internet used as training)
- lower confidence in democracy (think incredibly realistic deep-fakes, very smart "troll bots" on Twitter working for foreign powers)
- lower confidence in the social fabric (people preferring AI girlfriends to real people, bullying each other, making "nude AI photographs")
- oulipo 3y agoit's going to be an "industrial revolution" all over again, except this time the "factory workers" of yesterday are going to be even us, the "knowledge workers" So we better learn from history, and ask the people in power to redistribute before the social fabric is completely destroyed and people can barely sustain themselves
- gaws 3y ago> Just vote. This, and staying informed with reliable sources.
- codingdave 3y agoJust vote. You don't need to up-end your life into full-blown activism to bring change. You just need to vote. IMO, trying to do everything is just going to discourage people. Trying to tax the rich and fix democracy is a good goal, but orthogonal to controlling the impact of AI, so packaging it together is likewise going to discourage people. Even if you disagree, the first step to any of that is to actually get out and vote. Don't fall into the trap of being politically active online and then sitting home at elections because you bought into the lie that individual votes won't make a difference.
- oulipo 3y agoOf course, but right now no party has a clear recommendation on the effects of AI on workforce, that's why we need militants to educate politicians
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