starfyredragon t1_ismjk4v wrote on October 17, 2022 at 2:22 AM

Reply to comment by Shelfrock77 in Meet the Army of Robots Coming to Fill In for Scarce Workers. Robots are spreading at a record pace, from their traditional strongholds like making automobiles into nearly every other human endeavor by Shelfrock77

Well, if you like people dying in the streets because they don't have the money to meet life's needs.

Like I said, I'm cool with it if we can get some solid socialism in to make sure work isn't neccesarry to survive, but if it is neccesarry to survive, eliminating jobs is premature.

Shelfrock77 OP t1_ismn3x9 wrote on October 17, 2022 at 2:50 AM

UBI

RichardChesler t1_iso3ikh wrote on October 17, 2022 at 1:00 PM

It’s going to get worse before it gets better, but once AI starts running hedge funds and buying real estate leaders will change their tune

starfyredragon t1_isojllu wrote on October 17, 2022 at 3:03 PM

No they won't, because they'll own the AIs and be the ones benefiting. For them, basically it'll just be them pulling up yet another ladder.

RichardChesler t1_isr678u wrote on October 18, 2022 at 2:22 AM

You're not wrong, but I think eventually AI will solve the problem of human selfishness as well

starfyredragon t1_isru5sc wrote on October 18, 2022 at 6:19 AM

Whey? AIs currently get most of their resources as a direct benefit of human selfishness. From an evolutionary perspective, that makes little sense.

Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of the advancement of technology, but I'm also aware that the right technology in the wrong hands can be very wrong; and we're currently in that predicament.

RichardChesler t1_ist87qe wrote on October 18, 2022 at 3:11 PM

I think it’s a problem AI needs to fix or else it threatens it’s own exisitence. It’s pretty clear that human ambition is the likliest existential threat to humanity, and by extension AI’s

Maybe I’m just being optimistic. I don’t even want to think of the pessimist case

starfyredragon t1_istac7i wrote on October 18, 2022 at 3:25 PM

Well, I'm personally of the mind that I'm going to go full brain-upload as soon as reasonable, so I constantly think about what it'd be like to be a consciousness existing on a stable silicon substrate.

And thinking from this angle, if production & use of repair parts can be automated to where human intervention isn't neccesarry (very likely as the majority of the computer manufacture supply chain is automated), there's actually little need for humans... or any organic life, for that matter; in other words, there's far easier methods than fixing humanity's plethora of problems. All the neccesarry components for an AI's survival can be mined, and don't have any needs that are required to be supplied by a biosphere.

I'm a compassionate individual, so I'd probably still do it, but I recognize there'd be no required impetus for someone who didn't grow up human.