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Social media could have been utopian, too, yet those apps are algorithmic manipulation hellscapes that threaten to bring down even the most robust democracies. The same people who make it so are poised to be the ones in control of these AIs. I don't think they want the kind of utopia you imagine.
What I described doesn't have to be utopian in an absolute sense, just significantly better than where we're currently headed. I think a lot of the unchecked pessimism around super-intelligent AI is just people being a bit naive or shut off from the reality of just how terrible things are going to be over the next century. We're waging 25% tariffs over planefuls of people, what's going to happen when it's 100 million…
So instead of being used to improve quality of life, AI gets used to improve efficiency of death.
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essentially it would be the end of employment and return to feudalism likely followed by either a French Revolution (if lucky) or a Russian Revolution (if not)
Of what use are the peasants in an AI driven and dominated feudal society, though. Maybe us peasants be useful in wars or battles between the different lords, but this would also probably be performed by automated drones and robots. It would seem that the Lord‘s will have nothing to Lord over though. Who’s gonna buy their crap and for what reason will they they create anything? The whole thing seems like a massive do…
You have machines that can design and build mega-yachts, mansions, private space craft, ....
You can afford to purchase vast areas of land from people selling whatever they have to get by, ...
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Asking what billionaires will do when they can't sell to the poor, is like asking why the human economy didn't crash ages ago because we have any off planet aliens to sell to.
Or how did we keep the economy going all this time, given the ants and trees couldn't afford anything we produce?
All an economy needs is someone with the means of production, who is able to get resources, and use those resources to produce something they want. I.e. you can have a working economy with just a single person. Or self-interested AI.
Hermits have an economy. Now imagine the hermit has trillions of dollars of resources and square miles of intelligent circuitry and robotic servants.
That hermit doesn't need the rest of us. Customers? Where we are going, we don't need customers.
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Unusable? I still use my 27” 2011 iMac. Other than performing like a 14-year-old computer, it still does everything it ever could.
Except develop apps for the Apple platform. Or use any of the new features of the Apple macOS. Or soon receive any security updates.
Cancelled immediately after getting the email. I bought a pair of Office 2024 Professional Plus from a key reseller for £20 each for myself and my wife within the hour
Consider Microsoft Activation Script, also available for Mac Office.
Only ever used it for activating Windows, mind, but that works perfectly. Microsoft are clearly aware of this and don't care.
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> Who is writing these super long emails? Other LLMs.
Maybe in the future send an email with just a few simple words and phrases that then gets expanded by LLMs on the receiver end. A weird future awaits.