Future generations will look at people who think there will be sapient general AI the same as how we today view people who thought there would be a microfiche machine in every home by now.
I’m curious to hear your reasoning that makes you so confidently suggest we’ll never reach AGI that is consciouss?
“I just want to know why you have such an objection to sea lions”
I think it is more accurate to fear the transition. Economically speaking, there will be turbulence. We have already seen some companies try to eliminate all their employees and replace them with AI. But we have already been here before. I work in railroading, and in the 80s they all got rid of huge portions of their employees by replacing them with computers. Those people found new jobs, and some of them fell on hard times, while some made out better. There are whole industries that were completely transformed due to technology changes in the past forty years. But it wasn’t the end of the world. It was just turbulent for some.
So for me, I’m not worried, but I am weary. I welcome AI as a new tool for humans to use. I just don’t welcome poor decision making from shareholders and shitty management.
What I fear more than the tech is the idea that when most jobs are replaced with it, people will still be expected to find work somehow.
That’s the difference between capitalism and socialism.
In a socialist country, the profits generated by automation would just go to the people, since they own the means of production.
Even a social democratic country is still tolerable given enough UBI, universal socialized healthcare, free education including university, etc…
Capitalist countries without regulations and UBI are totally fucked. I expect riots happening throughout the world. Every country would have their own Tiananamen Square Massacre.
And we have seen how great socialist countries work, every single time was a huge success with benefits for everyone…
You mean the state capitalist countries known as Russia and China?
There’s nothing socialist about China, most people don’t have health insurance, you even have to pre-pay for treatments, including emergency treatments
Most of the welfare in the west does not exist in China
China is even more capitalistic than the USA
Saying “Socialism Bad” because of China, is like saying “Democracy Bad” because Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea)
Can you name only one, of the many tries, where a socialist state worked?
Oh but i am sure those are all no true scotsman… I mean no true socialist states.
Eventually. Maybe they will feat it for different reasons as well.
I’ve been trying to highlight the benefits of using AI to some folks at work. Some get very scared of it because they don’t want to be replaced by AI. Bruh, if your job can already be replaced by AI, maybe it’s not a very stimulating job?
I’ve been saying this for a long time. If a robot / AI can do your job just as well as you can if not even better then it probably should. For example, I don’t think we should get rid of combine harvesters simply because scything employs more people.
Future generations will look at people who think AI/Robots are humans as the gullible useful idiots they are.
I call people who fear other races/ethnicities “magat little bitches”
