undefined | Better HN

0 pointsqgin1y ago0 comments

The premise is that this ultimately replaces all intellectual and physical labor for the rest of time. It’s possible it becomes commoditized as soon as it exists, but in terms of investment dollars it’s either worth as much as you can spend or nothing at all.

0 comments

pjc501y ago

> ultimately replaces all intellectual and physical labor for the rest of time

Sounds incredibly valuable, but in reality collapses into Butlerian Jihad fairly quickly when you have 90% unemployment.

Edit: if the claims are true, then this will be far more destabilizing than social media. What do elections mean when the AI-guided political parties are putting out AI press releases for the AI press summaries, which voters have read out to them through their AI? What happens when >50% of the voters ask the AI who they should vote for? You end up with an AI dictatorship where the levers of discontent are fake.

ben_w1y ago

> Sounds incredibly valuable, but in reality collapses into Butlerian Jihad fairly quickly when you have 90% unemployment.

But nobody really knows if that happens or not as a consequence, let alone quickly, because the transition itself only happened at all so far in fiction.

Whatever does happen, I think it's going to be a surprise to at a minimum 80% of the population.

conartist61y ago

Yeah at some point it seems inevitable that if machines do all the work that creates real "value" and people have no comparable value, in a very practical sense we will all be slaves to machines

thrance1y ago

Like in Dune, we won't be slaves to the machines, but to the people owning the machines.

1 more reply

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse