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Even if they automate all our current jobs uniquely human experiences will always be valuable to us and will always have demand.
Even if they automate all our current jobs uniquely human experiences will always be valuable to us and will always have demand.
The really scary part is what happens to all of the newly unemployed people between the falling prices part and the rising employment part. My guess is, governments and markets won't move quickly enough and unrest is what happens.
Even if they automate all our current jobs uniquely human experiences will always be valuable to us and will always have demand.
I call this the Quark principle. On DS9, there are matter replicators that can perfectly recreate any possible drink imaginable instantly. And yet, the people of the station still gather at Quark's and pay him money to pour and mix their drinks from physical bottles. As long as we are human, some things will never go away no matter how advanced the technology becomes.
Even if they automate all our current jobs uniquely human experiences will always be valuable to us and will always have demand.
For AI, yes. For AGI? Do you care about uniquely ant experience? Bacteria? Why would AGI care? Which now runs the planet?
Ethology? Biology? We have entire fields of science to these things so obviously we care to some extent.
Even if they automate all our current jobs uniquely human experiences will always be valuable to us and will always have demand.
For AI, yes. For AGI? Do you care about uniquely ant experience? Bacteria? Why would AGI care? Which now runs the planet?
Even if they automate all our current jobs uniquely human experiences will always be valuable to us and will always have demand.
There's a bit of a circular argument here - even if we human always assign intrinsic value to ourselves and our kin, I don't see a clear argument that human capabilities will have external value to the economy at large.
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For AI, yes. For AGI? Do you care about uniquely ant experience? Bacteria? Why would AGI care? Which now runs the planet?
I think it's academic because I suspect we're much further from AGI than anyone thinks. We're especially far from AGI that can act in physical space without human "robots" to carry out its commands.
Outside of America people aren't really stressed about AI. Like you go to Vietnam or Vienna they mostly just think that they will have a good life with AI. It's uniquely American to believe that your life will end when AI takes your job. The problem isn't the AI it's that your access to basic rights is intermediated by a corporate job. American's need to decenter their self worth from their jobs. Like when I quit Mic…