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> Ergo I think the large shift will not be from jobs to no-jobs, but from jobs to entertainment-based jobs. And that, in and of itself, is dystopian. Furtherm
by tivert 2y ago
> Ergo I think the large shift will not be from jobs to no-jobs, but from jobs to entertainment-based jobs.
And that, in and of itself, is dystopian.
Furthermore, there's far more inequality in "entertainment-based jobs" than other types of work. Everyone can't be an influencer, period, and it should be blindingly obvious to anyone who's lived in the world that not everyone can be an entertainer.
> In a world where everyone’s basic needs are met, the result is an attention-driven economy, not no economy.
"AI" will not bring us to "world where everyone’s basic needs are met." We lack the ideological foundations for that (and if we had them, everyone's basic needs would already be met. It's far more likely that we just get a bigger homeless problem, with people trying to scrape by living in sewers (like they already do! https://www.nzz.ch/english/the-misery-of-the-homeless-in-las-vegas-living-in-tunnels-ld.1708954 https://www.nzz.ch/english/the-misery-of-the-homeless-in-las...).