121 sats \ 1 reply \ @gmd 19 Oct 2023 \ parent \ on: Obvious innovation that people once feared bitcoin
Not at all optimistic about AI either. I imagine it will be a big winner-take-all that will proceed to evaporate the already shrinking middle class.
Everyone says it will create new jobs and free people up to do other things... like what? A quick visit to any developing country will show that there are already hundreds of millions of underemployed people selling fruit out of a basket or whatever that would kill for white collar jobs that don't exist. We already have an epidemic of overly educated, indebted baristas...
I imagine AI will help immensely with the upcoming population collapse however...
@gmd woke up and took the black pill :)
The thought exercise I usually end up in is: assume AI is capable of doing anything and everything humans can do and more cheaply. Assume it's also cooperative and not dystopic in other obvious ways. What does the world look like? It's not obviously good to me because it disrupts too many things all at once. That doesn't mean it's bad but it being bad can't be ruled out either.
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