for the past and present I see what you mean, but for the future we expect the singularity, the technology itself to create more abundance than before, not a specific political system. so when/if that happens, with abundance to spare, then I think a socio democratic system will be the best political solution to implement.

Current AI leads to a 70% reduction? Yeah, I emphatically disagree.

Technology is getting cheaper, which means you can get the same product/service or even more for same or less money.

But we don't know how to make human brains aside from producing people of course ;) We do know how to create AI models though. Considering the rate of progress in just the past year I wouldn't want to bet against image generation and recognition technology.

Nuclear fusion will possibilitate this.

it's a 49% stake apparently

pretty soon we'll have powerful narrow AIs that will increase productivity by like 5x. Companies won't need to hire as many people.

Nouriel Roubini thinks his job (economist) will get automated pretty soon. I personally think there are some jobs in finance (trading, investing) that might be around for a while because they require human judgement. But pretty much everything in finance/economics will be affected.

There is a difference between work and playful unpaid labour.

>If you think AI will develop quickly,

the dumbest thing you can do is respond to the hype and quit improving yourself.

>no job is safe in the advent of AGI

AI will replace some jobs and not others before it becomes AGI which might be never or hundreds of years. A better LLM is not AGI. AGI requires new algorithms and levels of abstraction that nobody has specifically defined.

Cognitive power doesn't cause rebellious independence outside of teenagers and hollywood plot devices. AI designed by anyone who can even spell a-l-i-g-n-m-e-n-t isn't going to start spontaneously deciding what it does and doesn't care about as if it's reached puberty. Maybe it is very hard to design a loss function aligned with our values and maybe we only get one chance, but if we make a strong misaligned AGI I guarantee it won't manifest as meekly as snobbish refusal to cooperate.

Why does GPT care about predicting the next token in a string? Does it philosophize and self-reflect during training to determine if manipulating vectors is what it really wants? Hell no, it just does the math. Only the final trained model is faintly capable of mimicking wetware traits like desire, and it only does that when prompted to.

Researching AI? So hard work?

Put AI before finance or economy and you’ll be the last to go.

15 years ago, back then in medicine, elite academics were coming from physics. I said, all medical academics careers are gonna be given to AI-pick your specialty.

Bonus, you don’t actually need to know anything about it, just have some professors and postdocs numbers and will be all. It is so fashionable and obscure everybody will see AI wherever they wish to :-)

Call me selfish, but I believe it's best to gather as much capital as you can, so you can live off your financial wealth when times will be tough. You'll have the freedom to look around you and adapt to the new world without being dependant on politicians to bail you out.

70% automation?

Work smarter not harder lmao

Ya, just like how advanced modern game engines replaced 8bit game devs instead of just setting the bar higher

/s

Pretty much the same here, although my philosophy is that drugs and video games and sugar are poison. And sex is a means to an end, not the end.

And yet I struggle with this life every day, wondering if I should not be more successful. Letting go of the drive for success is the hardest thing for a man I suspect, just as not chasing love is the hardest for women.

Eventually we will all end up in this kind of life, AI offers that escape after 100,000 years of brutal survival. Unfortunately even if something is free, there are always those who want to limit the amount of people that make it, because no people on the beach makes it boring, a healthy number of people makes it a hot spot, but too many people makes it crowded.

I suspect 90% of people won't make it.

>We might see the abolishment of...mortality/death ...in the next couple years.

And people on this sub wonder why everyone else thinks this sub is bonkers.

An interesting point, and well written, that touches upon the fact that people are so conditioned to glorify work that they cannot imagine anything else.

The same applies to consumerism, I believe the natural evolution of AI will be a reduction of the human population of the "useless class" as the WEF describes it, but a common reaction I get is "but then who will the elites sell their products to". People simply cannot imagine a world without consumerism, they mistake the means for the goals. A mouse looking for the cheese in the maze can't imagine there's unlimited amounts of cheese, if only it left the maze.

Personally I've resigned myself to wait for AI to come in and shatter all our fragile, outdated beliefs about work, money and the pursuits of happiness. I've devoted myself to spiritual enlightenment, by rejecting drugs and video games, and by mastering my physical desires, rather than let them master me.

That way if AI or God or aliens shows up and looks into my mind as I am sure it will, it'll find a person who has grown beyond what his base instincts and society has shaped him to be. The last thing I'd want to say is "look at how many shiny pebbles I've collected" to a being that cares not two cents about such things.

It's also something that confuses me about religion, why would God care about how much money you have? If work is so important, then why were Jesus and Buddha so poor and unemployed?

Cool resource. Thanks for sharing!

People think everyone in a specific field has to get replaced but really most will get replaced by just productivity increases

www.Bluecap.ai already does this for meetings, it's impressive af!!

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