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VanceIX t1_iw4eo5i wrote

Reply to comment by cjeam in What if the future doesn’t turn out the way you think it will? by Akashictruth

Capitalism is literally the only reason we could plausibly have AGI in our lifetimes…

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[deleted] t1_iw4u7k4 wrote

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VanceIX t1_iw4ud6t wrote

That’s literally what I’m saying though. With the advent of AGI there won’t be value to human labor, which means the end of capitalism.

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[deleted] t1_iw4uqxn wrote

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VanceIX t1_iw4v10n wrote

You’d throw the world into economic turmoil, potentially causing millions to billions of deaths, to replace a system that will become obsolete shortly anyway?

Right now, like it or not, human labor still has value. You abolish capitalism, you also abolish any incentive for advanced AI research. Good luck getting AGI paying PhD and ME researchers a pittance compared to what they earn now at Google, OpenAI, Meta, etc.

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[deleted] t1_iw4w5rq wrote

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VanceIX t1_iw4wiyw wrote

The entire reason we have the cutting edge computing growth and research today is the competitive economy fostered by capitalism. Like it or not, it’s true. If it weren’t, and the government mandating things was a better system, then the USSR would be the leading bloc around the world, not the USA. The federal government can’t wave its hands, print trillions, and solve AGI.

You do you though.

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cjeam t1_iw4ippb wrote

AGI will come out of advanced research labs first. They’re not motivated by capitalism. It’s the next stage of the technological curve that starts to be motivated by capitalism.

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VanceIX t1_iw4osnv wrote

Our whole society is motivated by capitalism. What do you think is responsible for the people who work in those labs choosing to work there, getting paid, the competition to produce results, the decision to get the degrees they needed to work in the field, the taxpayer money or corporate money that funds them, etc? Do you really think this feat would have been accomplished in the USSR or pre-capitalism China?

Capitalism is not the final economic model for humanity, it’s simply the best one for achieving AGI which will be the final economic model.

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cjeam t1_iw70l9j wrote

Taxation funds them, which is not a capitalist funding model.

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