Silicon Valley's new ideological faction, called Effective Accelerationism or e/acc, is focused on the pursuit of AI development with no guardrails to slow its growth.
  • phoneymouse@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I don’t understand. The economy is not only driven by production (workers/labor), but also by consumption (people, also workers).

    Let’s say AI can perform the production side without any human labor. That eliminates the workers (who are also the consumers). So, what do you get when you remove most/all consumption from the economy and are left with just AI?

    • catch22@startrek.websiteEnglish
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      1 year ago

      A human surplus. This on steroids possibly?

      until there isn’t a human surplus in the consideration of those who manipulate the easily led…

  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Its fine. Once they’ve developed AI consumers, AI can generate content for AI consumers to spend AI money on. Humans will become a second class species relegated to consuming content produced by humans. Its fine.

  • Grimy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    My view of it is that if it doesn’t go fast, we end up in a boiled frog situation where every year a few more jobs are lost but not enough for people to protest and the rich end up owning all of us like slaves after a couple of decades.

    If in the space of a few years we lose virtually all jobs, it will be hard to argue against the obvious solutions like rapid nationalization of assets and fully automated communism.