Capitalism.
this post was submitted on 11 Mar 2024
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I agree! We just need to kill capitalism for that to happen.
He isn't wrong, but the pathways is by taxing the absolute fuck out of billionaires
Sure. Just need to get a bunch of trillions hoarded away by billionaires and throw it at R&D to solve these problems and I bet it would happen.
These rich fuckers making proclamations like that yet somehow still expecting someone else to pay for the solutions.
what is AGI?
Artificial General Intelligence
Adjusted Gross Income.
I gotta find a way to filter out techbros from my feed.
We don't even have NGI.
It's very rational, it's always been mocked and looked down upon to be optimistic. But through the ages it has been proven to be true that we achieve much more than we imagine.
However the pessimism built in to most people probably helps this drive and is actually a good thing.
The thing that keeps us from living lives of abundance is not a lack of technology.
Abundance is already here, tons of food are destroyed and thrown out when they accidentally make too much while people are starving, there's no money in abundance, it's the artificial lack of supply that keeps prices high and profits soaring.
Have you read Ishmael?
Approximately 1/3 of all food produced is wasted.
Food isn't the only resource in the equation. Most of the resources are limited and even diminishing.
I agree but I think their point was more along the lines of "Even if we have complete abundance of everything (as in, the capabilities to produce anything in abundance), capitalists will continue to create artificial lack of supply to continue profiting off of the workers. For example, look at the food abundance we have"
capitalists will continue to create artificial lack of supply
I think it's not that, but just:
capitalists won't spend their money to create logistical chains for free.
"Collect and distribute supply" won't do itself, someone should do that. And noone will do that for free
These people are frauds.
This reads like Musk promising everyone that his imaginary train will be faster and cheaper than everything else.
Opium.
Every rich tech bro has convince themselves they are the savior of the world.
It's just bait for investors. This is the kind of crap that gets people with money and zero understanding of computers to buy stocks.
Great... And and will this abundance be shared or hoarded for profit like everything else that is abundant already is?
Yes
Just put it in chatgpt I'm sure it will figure it all out
Aah, the innocence of 2022.. 🫠
The current state of capitalism will ensure the second line never sees the light of day
No no, they're desperately looking for that, because gating infinite abundance away from the plebs will be amazing for quarterly profits and entertainment! Think of all the reality shows you can make by pitting the poor against themselves!
We can already create enough abondance that no human starves, sleep outside or can't affotd medical treatment. Still look at the world.
Why bother to let humans live if they are not profitable enough for the megacorps? That almost sounds like work.
deregulated capitalism is a curse on society
Yes.
He's not wrong. He's probably not going to be the guy leading the charge on any of that but he's not wrong.
He's forgetting about the part where it'll be monetized in such a way that only the rich will benefit.
You're not exactly wrong but at the same time we all benefited from the invention of say electricity or computing. If they do invent fusion or something I'm sure we'll get benefits. Maybe not free power but at the very least that allow us to buy it.
With access to that much power we could desalinate seawater on an industrial scale or power some of the carbon capture technologies. It will make things better.
Check again. He never said it wouldn't!
He's not forgetting: that's what he's proposing!
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