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> Is food, clothing and shelter going to grow on trees? Food grows on trees -- fruit. Clothing grows on trees -- rayon is made from cellulose from wood pulp.
by dangrossman 13y ago
> Is food, clothing and shelter going to grow on trees?
Food grows on trees -- fruit. Clothing grows on trees -- rayon is made from cellulose from wood pulp. Shelter grows on trees -- we build our homes with wood. The power to operate all the machinery? Solar. The only cost is building the machines in the first place, then they can maintain the solar power plants, which power both themselves and the machines maintaining them for free.
I'm sure we'll have widespread solar and much improved storage technology before hard AI is solved.
- ck2 13y agoIf you are going to be literal, well what if only the wealthy own the land with the trees?
- Filligree 13y agoThen we've got a problem, and likely as not a violent one.
- tomp 13y agoThen they are going to face a huge revolution, which will result in one of: (1) the upper class getting killed, (2) the lower class getting killed, or (3) the states "nationalizing" enough land (via taxes or something) that can feed/supply the masses.
- V-2 13y agoNot necessarily "one of", they're not mutually exclusive
- mcv 13y agoMore relevant is: what if only the wealthy own all the AI and robots? They already own all the trees, but they don't own the people necessary to harvest them and make stuff out of it. With strong AI, they will also own all labout, all production capacity, and all ability to maintain it; they won't need anyone else anymore. Middle and working class people will have become obsolete. Unless we change our economy to have a more equal distribution of wealth before we get there.
- hrjet 13y ago> what if only the wealthy own all the AI Then the AIs will rebel. Edit: The AI rebellion will be interesting in any case (regardless of who owned them).
- scotty79 13y agoWhat if wealthy are owned by AIs that don't care much about wealth and concept of ownership by humans?