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Well said. Its quite striking to see that really, all big questions of today lead to a similar outlook and conclusion.I can see both sides of the argument. I mean no matter which way you slice it, its going to end up leaving less jobs for real humans to do. And in a sense, thats a good thing. No point having a job if it there's no productive value in it, we should strive to be as productive as possible.
When farming techniques advanced, lots of people were left without jobs. And what happened? They found new jobs, as engineers and eventually software developers, jobs we couldn't have even imagined 150 year ago. The thing is, a lot of low hanging fruit has been picked already, I think new technologies are going to be harder and harder and harder to come by.
So... to what end? Society becomes more and more productive, meanwhile less and less of the people are able to enjoy the fruits of said productivity. IDK who's gotten ahold of western politicians balls lately. Governments used to have no trouble giving big industry the boot if they were becoming too powerful or exploiting people. Now it seems like all the govenment wants to do is nothing. Just wait and see. And I get it, you make so many mistakes over the years, the lessons learned become overwhelming until you're paralyzed in fear of doing anything.
But man Russsia has been in a full scale war with Ukraine in the heart of Europe and there's still those that haven't woken up to what this really means. Climate change is getting so bad that rivers are drying up all over the place and previously fertile farmland is being eroded away.
I think AI has the possibility to do good. But not the kind of AI we have now ( the kind that just reads stuff humans have wrote and reguritates it in a way that doesn't make any sense). But lets say we overcome that, we're going to need strong regulation to keep corporations in line. And if it really does lead to a catastrophe like 50% unemployment rate or something like that, then govenrments are going to have to start thinking about universal basic income. Are they ready for that?
Man its hard to talk about ai without getting into absolutely everything else. Anyway I hope I didn't break the rules here, I didn't mean to say x party is responsible or anything, just that governments in general really to get ahead of this.
Our current leadership is disgustingly weak, on both sides of the political spectrum, and in the center. There is no vision, no direction... because there are too many uncomfortable truths. Its just a very hard sell, but its an impossible sell if we have no vision or direction. The only vision we dó seem to have is pointed at our mobile phone.
I'll refer to my avatar on the left here, look carefully and notice the social media logos on that washing machine there. This is the primary issue, I think - even politicians are more likely to be busy with their personal branding than with what really matters. Only rarely do people stand up for ideals and stick to them. And those that do... we fail to protect.