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If so many jobs move from actual humans to AI what happens to those humans who lose their jobs? It takes far fewer people to maintain an AI instance than the number of people it took to do the job. There won't be enough other jobs for people to do so does this mean that universal basic income becomes a thing? This would of course require much higher taxes on the most profitable companies.
@yuknowhokat @Pro what? why would they do that? no, they'll just commodify the permanent underclass.
Good question. When companies start laying off everyone because AI takes over, then how will their customers afford to buy their products?
What good is their AI when they no longer have customers?
Yes, AI (specifically AGI) is the path to socialism. Leftist are only opposed to it at the moment because the right is also optimistic about the tech, so they need to take the opposite stance.
@Plebcouncilman @yuknowhokat orrrr, leftists realize that automation doesn't guarantee anything in terms of political arrangements and, having analyzed the structure and ideology of current LLM ownership, recognize that the dangers of expanding water consumption and GHG emissions are certain, the capacity for disinformation is immense, and the theoretical benefits are decades off, if they ever happen at all.
@SallyStrange @Plebcouncilman @yuknowhokat weird how under capitalism every technological advancement just makes us work more and not less
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] no no, it totally makes sense that socialism can be found through the pathway of "giving all the fascists everything they want and letting them control and deskill everyone and destroy the environment while passing a bunch of laws to facilitate making unhoused people into slaves and then making becoming unhoused much more likely"
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@SallyStrange @Plebcouncilman @yuknowhokat When they haven't tried actual diversity, but turn to the machines for help? That's not a good look.