Comment by qarl2

1 day ago

I see a trend line from anti-AI back to anti-evolution to vitalism all the way to Galileo.

Humans have a deep need to be special magic flowers - and they can't stand it when science eventually shows them they're not.

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dudul  20 hours ago

Humans just want to be able to work and feed their families. Notice how this is something that is never addressed for example in Asimov's writings where robots do everything. How do people do anything to be able to afford these robots? How do Solarians make money to maintain their massively gigantic estates? It is never explained, but we always jump straight to the "robots do everything, everything is free, nobody works". How about the in between?

  • qarl2  20 hours ago

    Oh yes, I agree entirely. I look at The Jetsons or Star Trek, and I see the fruits of technology shared by all of humankind.

    But if the current trends continue, Elon will own all of the robots and the rest of us will be at his mercy.

    How we change that - I don't know. But I do know we don't change it by putting our heads in the sand. AI is here and it is real. We MUST take it seriously. Shunning is not a viable option.

  • piloto_ciego  20 hours ago

    We're going to have to (collectively at some point) decide that we shouldn't tie survival to working.

    Whether that's UBI, or Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism, or UBS, or some AI managed economy, or some other such thing, we need to decide that "hey, we don't want to tied survival to output under our current system."

    That's really the Rubicon we have to cross, and there are a LOT of people who can't really come up with a better way in their own heads yet.

    Look, we all saw how things can be during the pandemic. That was a dark time, but it also gives us a model, we can just... do things. We just have to decide to do them.

    • dudul  20 hours ago

      Oh! Damn! Stupid me! "We have to collectively decide this", when is the meeting to vote on that again? When is the last time we all decided something collectively?

      WTF does the pandemic have to do with this? "dark time", oh yeah, people stuck at home watching Netflix, what an incommensurable suffering!

      Buddy, I can admire the naive childish optimism to a degree, but come on. "We just have to all decide". Do you live in a Disney movie?

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