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Comment by merelydev

1 day ago

I don't understand all you wrote, but I guess you are saying AI leads to communism, so what happens to the investors money in a communist economy?

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randallsquared  1 day ago

It's not about communism vs a free market, but about a change even more radical than that: leaving aside "made by a human" labeling, and even if there were no other changes to power structures or economies and no AI doom, what does a world look like if the cost of having something done falls to a few cents of electricity and its burden? Growing crops still takes a lot of land and other resources...

  • merelydev  1 day ago

    > what does a world look like if the cost of having something done falls to a few cents of electricity and its burden?

    There will be an oversupply, demand will be there too, but no one can afford to buy since most jobs have been replaced by AI. So the price of goods and services should go down, or some form of UBI will have to be implemented which is just socialism for the masses. Its either that or total anarchy (also socialism).

sunaurus  1 day ago

How could AI possibly lead to communism?

If humans remain in control of it, then how can it possibly lead to anything other than extreme oligarchy?

  • Marha01  20 hours ago

    > If humans remain in control of it, then how can it possibly lead to anything other than extreme oligarchy?

    Depends on the distribution of such AI. For example, if everyone on Earth has their own, personal superhuman AI, it would not lead to extreme oligarchy. If only a handful of humans control superhuman AI, it would.