Comment by chaostheory

5 hours ago

Population decline from collapsing birthrates should help.

Except many of the same champions of AI are also speaking out against population decline (Musk, Altman, Bezos, etc)

  • they want to reduce people to have possibility to create AI centres... Highlander rules

    • No, I mean the opposite - they are advocating for fighting against population decline, and are waxing poetic on how to increase fertility and birth rates.

  • It's a real weird contradiction. They don't want the population to decline but they also want to replace everyone's jobs with AI and skip out on UBI. So what's the point?

    • Some of it's rooted with racial bias (most of Musk's discussion on the topic are focused on the birth rates of white people). Most of it I think is based in the continued dominance of the west. AI is good for information, but we're a LONG WAY from the robots doing the messy work required for human civilization to continue to function, so there won't be any shortage of work for a long time.

    • Slavery. They've all specifically stated that exact goal as well. No contradiction at all.