@CulpBrady The US isn't the only country, and whether it's difficult is not the point. I'm saying that political mobilization should be directed to figuring it. A dude in the 1860s was already writing about how automation exposes the contradictions of capitalism, you should check it out.
Personally, it sounds pretty dystopian to me to live in a world where all labor essential for human living could be automated but isn't, stagnant because inefficiencies in society must be forced to prevail above everything.
Richard and others fail to see how a *general labor machine* is qualitatively distinct from every other form of automation that has been developed in history.
We have historically automated *tasks*, but not *labor* itself
The question of whether AI can actually become the Universal Labor Replacing Machine remains an open one—it’s certainly not there yet—but the implications for a world in which it *did* are very obviously different than with previous automation technologies
@onlyTrueJason@KeyTryer Ai will improve the lives of many more people that any single person. ‘Theoretically’, AI can cure every disease and achieve scientific miracles that can improve lives, so why should these people be against it? It’s because they won’t get paid, that’s a capitalism issue not ai
@CulpBrady It is genuinely a massive failure of governance to be unable to imagine a fair post-labor government system and desire toil and death for the rest of history even with the ability to remove it. Not to mention, it'll destroy the planet.
@CulpBrady It is genuinely a massive failure of governance to be unable to imagine a fair post-labor government system and desire toil and death for the rest of history even with the ability to remove it. Not to mention, it'll destroy the planet.
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Personally, it sounds pretty dystopian to me to live in a world where all labor essential for human living could be automated but isn't, stagnant because inefficiencies in society must be forced to prevail above everything.
(Ironically a lot of right wing and accelerationist cope about AI is insisting that it will creates more jobs somehow, which I think they're wrong, it really is pretty different this time)
@KeyTryer People obsessed with their jobs be like “what’s our purpose then”. Idk pursue hobbies and relationships with friends/family. These people are enslaved by capitalism it is sad
@MidnightJfox If AI really gets better than a human doctor, assuming a full in-person checkup, better judgement and automated testing, I personally wouldn't want my hospital to have me seeing a human, for my own health.
@Stix8886 Will not have much effect due to the international nature of the competition, but might limit some of the worst impulses, especially on things related to safety.
(Ironically a lot of right wing and accelerationist cope about AI is insisting that it will creates more jobs somehow, which I think they're wrong, it really is pretty different this time)
I'm ngl that I don't think that anyone should be thinking about how AI should be made to create more jobs or something, because I do 100% believe that most jobs will go away with AI. I think people should be thinking what a post-labor society looks like.
Personally, it sounds pretty dystopian to me to live in a world where all labor essential for human living could be automated but isn't, stagnant because inefficiencies in society must be forced to prevail above everything.
This is why a lot of trade unionists hate international workers, their biggest boogeyman before AI used to be outsourcing, and often different unions with different incompatible interests compete against each other.
Or one of the most likely things in the near future, which is the replacement of drivers, leading to a world with virtually no traffic accidents and efficient and safe roads even if it costs many millions of driver jobs, and it doesn't happen, it'd be a societal disaster.