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He's talking about the economic consequences. AGI in an internet connected world is capitalism end-game. Once you have AGI, labour (both physical and intellect
by llamaLord 2y ago
He's talking about the economic consequences.
AGI in an internet connected world is capitalism end-game. Once you have AGI, labour (both physical and intellectual) becomes redundant, humans have a "value to the system" approaching zero.
Our economic system is built on a series of assumptions that fundamentally cannot survive AGI, and nobody is really even trying to grapple with that fact.
- throwaway48540 2y agoThe economic system is not set in stone. If everyone is irrelevant to it, the economic system becomes irrelevant to everyone, and a parallel system gradually replaces it.
- llamaLord 2y agoIMO we've had the EXACT same economic system since we were living in caves, it's called "supply and demand". What do you do when "demand" for human labour drops to zero and "supply" stays at >8 billion. No account of tinkering at the edges is going to fix that. We're in a much deeper fundamental problem than you might seem to think we are.
- anticensor 2y agoSadly "earning a living" goes beyond economy, it is also deeply involved in societal and cultural values.
- throwaway48540 2y agoIt really isn't. Just 100 years ago "earning a living" meant growing food themselves on fields behind the house for the majority of humans.