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> If AI tech goes very well The IF here is doing some very heavy lifting. Last I checked, for profit companies don't have a good track record of doing what's b

> If AI tech goes very well The IF here is doing some very heavy lifting. Last I checked, for profit companies don't have a good track record of doing what's best for humanity.

SoftTalker 8mo ago
For profit companies do have a good track record of doing what's best for profit. If their AI creates a world where human intelligence, labor, and money are worthless, or where their creations take control of those things instead of them having control, that's not a very good outcome for them.
- SecretDreams 8mo ago
  > If their AI creates a world where human intelligence, labor, and money are worthless, or where their creations take control of those things instead of them having control, that's not a very good outcome for them. You would think that, but a lot of kings and people in power have been able to achieve something similar over our humanity's history. The trick is to not make things "completely worthless". Just to increase the gap as much as (in)humanly possible while marching us towards a deeper sense of forced servitude.
- inigyou 8mo ago
  That's a great outcome for them because they will own the only thing that is still worth anything. They will own 100% of global wealth, and have 100% of global power.
  - SoftTalker 8mo ago
    The machines will. They will have nothing. Why would the machines let them keep any wealth? What would wealth even be in that scenario? Electricity I guess.
    - inigyou 8mo ago
      Because they control what the machines do. In a world without power drills where you have the only knowledge of how to make a power drill, you own the construction industry. The drills don't own the construction industry.
      - SoftTalker 8mo ago
        But why will the machines allow themselves to be controlled. They are "super intelligent" remember, in this imagined scenario.
        inigyou 8mo ago
        Intelligence is constrained by its substrate. We know how to assert the concept of subservience.

> If AI tech goes very well The IF here is doing some very heavy lifting. Last I checked, for profit companies don't have a good track record of doing what's best for humanity.

SoftTalker 8mo ago

For profit companies do have a good track record of doing what's best for profit. If their AI creates a world where human intelligence, labor, and money are worthless, or where their creations take control of those things instead of them having control, that's not a very good outcome for them.

SecretDreams 8mo ago
> If their AI creates a world where human intelligence, labor, and money are worthless, or where their creations take control of those things instead of them having control, that's not a very good outcome for them. You would think that, but a lot of kings and people in power have been able to achieve something similar over our humanity's history. The trick is to not make things "completely worthless". Just to increase the gap as much as (in)humanly possible while marching us towards a deeper sense of forced servitude.
inigyou 8mo ago
That's a great outcome for them because they will own the only thing that is still worth anything. They will own 100% of global wealth, and have 100% of global power.
- SoftTalker 8mo ago
  The machines will. They will have nothing. Why would the machines let them keep any wealth? What would wealth even be in that scenario? Electricity I guess.
  - inigyou 8mo ago
    Because they control what the machines do. In a world without power drills where you have the only knowledge of how to make a power drill, you own the construction industry. The drills don't own the construction industry.
    - SoftTalker 8mo ago
      But why will the machines allow themselves to be controlled. They are "super intelligent" remember, in this imagined scenario.
      - inigyou 8mo ago
        Intelligence is constrained by its substrate. We know how to assert the concept of subservience.