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Re: Elon Musk’s Neuralink wants to boost the brain to keep up with AI

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I don't want to compete with AI. I want AI to create efficiency and wealth so I can relax and have a leisure lifestyle. This shows that work-a-holic CEO culture is only about margins and gains and not improving lifestyle and quality of life. Automation should be improving our lives not adding anxiety to compete with it, which we will ultimately lose. We're probably in for another 1880's labor movement as automation k…

So basically you want AI to enclose you in a simulation where you feel fulfilled and happy?

Re: Elon Musk’s Neuralink wants to boost the brain to keep up with AI

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't want to compete with AI. You don't have an option. Said another way, in the long run you either merge with AGI or go extinct.

Did 1880s people have to merge with assembly lines? I think you're being fairly dramatic and too "/r/futurology" here. The whole point of technology is to create tools to make our lives easier, not to become tools. People won't desire this and pushing this kind of pressure on people seems like a recipe for revolt against the capitalist system that has thus far provided so much wealth. The assembly line works for us,…

No, but like with any other performance enchanting utility it's going to be effectively peer pressure. If AI+human will be better than just AI people will "merge" with it at that point if it's a true AI you might as well be a different species to them as you'll likely won't be able to even communicate with them after a while.

Re: Elon Musk’s Neuralink wants to boost the brain to keep up with AI

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post #12

I don't want to compete with AI. I want AI to create efficiency and wealth so I can relax and have a leisure lifestyle. This shows that work-a-holic CEO culture is only about margins and gains and not improving lifestyle and quality of life. Automation should be improving our lives not adding anxiety to compete with it, which we will ultimately lose. We're probably in for another 1880's labor movement as automation k…

So basically you want AI to enclose you in a simulation where you feel fulfilled and happy?

No, I want it to create value that will be given back to me via taxation.

Re: Elon Musk’s Neuralink wants to boost the brain to keep up with AI

#16

I don't want to compete with AI. I want AI to create efficiency and wealth so I can relax and have a leisure lifestyle. This shows that work-a-holic CEO culture is only about margins and gains and not improving lifestyle and quality of life. Automation should be improving our lives not adding anxiety to compete with it, which we will ultimately lose. We're probably in for another 1880's labor movement as automation k…

Not everyone wants to be human for ever, some people take joy in their work and want to continue doing it and contributing in a meaningful way, etc, etc. Nothing to do with being a workaholic or the rest. I hate to say it, but 'leisure' gets boring awfully quickly.

Re: Elon Musk’s Neuralink wants to boost the brain to keep up with AI

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I don't want to compete with AI. I want AI to create efficiency and wealth so I can relax and have a leisure lifestyle. This shows that work-a-holic CEO culture is only about margins and gains and not improving lifestyle and quality of life. Automation should be improving our lives not adding anxiety to compete with it, which we will ultimately lose. We're probably in for another 1880's labor movement as automation k…

Not everyone wants to be human for ever, some people take joy in their work and want to continue doing it and contributing in a meaningful way, etc, etc. Nothing to do with being a workaholic or the rest. I hate to say it, but 'leisure' gets boring awfully quickly.

You realize that leisure could be any kind of work you want.

The distinction is not leisure vs work. It's freedom vs. constraint.

Re: Elon Musk’s Neuralink wants to boost the brain to keep up with AI

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post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So basically you want AI to enclose you in a simulation where you feel fulfilled and happy?

No, I want it to create value that will be given back to me via taxation.

First I read:

"No, I want it to create value that will be given back to me via television."

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