I did address how bioweapons would be a far more plausible way this all could go down, though I didn't want to dig into it since this was a focused rebuttal specifically against the sudden influx of people I've been noticing who insist that It'll be the murder bots who do us in.

I would also say that in the example you gave of the one elite doing it, it also stops being 'the rich will cull us!' And becomes 'one psychopath who happened to be rich rldecided to murder us all for the funsies'

In that scenario I would again point out though that, with a population of 8 billion, there would be a hell of alot of one in a million chances swirling around. Heck, in the event of 1 vs the world, you'd get eight one-in-a-billion chances. If nothing else I feel like one of those miracles would lead to people surviving, even if it was just a perfect combination of genes to make them resistant to the bioweapon. And some of whom would probably be rich of government individuals themselves. And hence would have the resources along with motive to give the murderous monster their just desserts.

So while it would still be a doomsday scenario, I don't see it working out for the instigator. And with the help of AGI, whoever was left would be able to rebuild.

How much would Elon Musk be worth when 720 million potential customers are dead and only 80 million people, who prefer to be driven in Bentleys, are left.

How rich will the Walmart heirs be when their store customers are rotting in the aisles?

The wealth of the 1% of based on business with the 99%.

Even if this is feasible, the CEO pay would not be past down to the workers. It would go to the shareholders in the form of stock buybacks or some other creative scheme to rob the worker of the value they created. Essentially nothing changes for the average person.

We're just heading toward machine assisted feudalism.

TLDR

Any dystopian future will be the unfortunate result of too many operating with too much discretion to know that they should ever feel bad. Sadly even Maslows hierarchy is still not enough to limit the damage we may inflict upon eachother.

When shareholders decide a computer will make the best decisions, a computer will start making important decisions. Titles are bullshit.

I'd trust a superhuman computer to steer the ship I'm on more than I'd trust the the typical human leader of today. Today's human captains sink ships and get promoted to admiral by blaming it all on the deckswabber.

In this case, with a non-human CEO that does not absorb profits, the workers in general would earn much more money...

Interesting...

EDIT: Well, my comment caused quite a controversy. That's all right. It is poorly formulated anyway, and half-serious. I do however, belive the automation of bosses will help the workers. But, we will need to abandon the modern company-form entirely.

We need Cybersyn.

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They, wouldn't use ai and a robot army to do any of this. The logistics of a culling would be quite elementary if you weren't using robots.. There are several viable ways.

A highly transmissable virus, or pathogen with a long dormant phase, and a near 100% death rate. By the time symptoms start popping up from the contamination of say, corn syrup, or any food staple, the overwhelming majority of the world would already have been exposed.

Or one could introduce chemical agents designed to sterilize over long periods of consumption, or to initiate incurable disease early in life. (The long game)

A robot army is infinitely more work, and more complex, and provides significantly less reward.

Ai has already unlocked an unimaginable amount of new proteins and chemicals.. it will soon unlock the downright cornucopia of genetic engineering... Imagine mosquitos that reproduce every time they bite someone. Eggs enter the circulatory system, hatch, and grow inside the body. Nothing is stopping this, except resources and intelligence, both of which will be available aplenty post agi.

You're right that there is little incentive to do this, but you only need it to happen one time. Perhaps 99.9999999% of the elites or people in general won't seek such an outcome, but all it would take is 1.

Hopefully I'm just a negative Nancy, with an overactive imagination.

yeah, that reminds me of when it confidently told me what the code it produced did ... but it wasn't right.

it's kind of weird when you can't say 'No, can't you read what you just produced? That's not what that does at all!'

1% of 8 billion is 80 million.

USA is the richest country in the world, with 330 million people.

It stands to reason the majority of the 80 million will be Americans.

Americans also have the most guns and advanced killing technology in the world, and most don't have a passport.

I think it is very likely the 1% is indeed plotting to kill off the rest of the world.

It turns out the phone call is indeed coming from inside the house.

It makes up sources even when you explicitly tell it not to. I’ve tried a variety of approaches and it’s unavoidable in my experience. It will make up authors, book/article/paper titles, dates, statistics, content, etc - it will make all of them up and will confidently tell you that they’re real and accurate.

Yeah, in how people can use it, that's definitely a good description and I've been asking google straight up questions for years already.

I do think it's changing the game for a lot of things, like how customer service bots are going to be actually good now.

In many ways, it’s just advanced google. I am in a specialty field and have published some thing that was repeated word for word as I wrote it when I asked CGPT about the topic.

Learn to read. Or do you need gpt for that as well?

how much of that food can be sown, grown, kept. and harvested without the aid of machinery, fertilizers or anything else reliant on just-in-time trade infrastructure.

Number 6. Of my breakdown in a nutshell.

There is a misunderstanding here, among the rich, there are also richer and poorer ones.

If they kill the common folks, the very threat that unites them would disappear. So the richest would use AI to kill the less richer.

And on and on it goes untill nobody is left.

I agree, there's no really viable scenario for a tiny number of rich people to preserve all their wealth and power while exterminating the rest of the population through some covert scheme. The vast majority of wealth is in any case tied to productive capital, which mass automation of labor sans UBI would destroy in a catastrophic deflationary spiral, meaning most of the rich would lose their wealth too as asset prices fell through the floor.

What is more possible is UBI, but even in such a case people will ask questions about why those who happened to be rich in 2025 get to stay rich forever, while everyone else has to be poor on welfare forever.

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Reporting someone when they call you an idiot, for you writing "luddites are fascist".

Let's hope they have Sherlock Holmes on call to resolve this one.

"you won't always have a calculator in your pocket when you grow up"

Axis labels for timestamps in this graph seem to be wrong.

There is a reason why my responses are made by ChatGPT, I'm literally proving a point..