Comment by frabcus
4 hours ago
Definitely these are forces that will do things. What their timing is relative to e.g. armies of AI robots, which could interfere with other humans living outside the internet/money, is part of the question.
Hope your brain works on this and writes something - we have lots of very odd future possibilities, and we're not really ready or planning for them, so making them tangible helps.
From my understanding, the "armies of AI robots" are just the wishful thinking of the currently winning people, in the sense that that would be what would be necessary to cement their own power while hoarding all resources for themselves.
It's not a real scenario. It's just rationalizing the "oh shit, they're coming for my head if I don't stop optimizing for my own benefit". "What can I do what can I do.. I know.. Army of Robots. I am safe and have nothing to change about anything I do".
You can tell that it is just that by considering the logistics of the proposed scenario.
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Every time we see vengeful AI or robots, we merely see a reflection of the currently winning meatbags, their character, their flaws, their fears and their goals.
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On the logistics note:
You can I think also see the hubris of the IT people in that, because "supply chain" for them means "npm", and that can be replaced with an LLM.
It breaks minds to be able to create value out of nothing just with your brain. It makes you believe that the whole world would work like that.
It however does not. And you cannot just compensate that with blitzscaling robots. The supply chain of.. literally any object you can find around you is absurdly complex. Even the most simplest stuff.
And it's also not documented, but even documentation wouldn't help you there. Experience in requirements engineering should make the "why" there obvious.