I know this claim is a minority here, and it's easy to assume that AI will be used by the rich to get even more power and control. However, I do have some counterarguments:1. AI is already more decentralized than electricity. It's easier and probably cheaper to set a server for a local model than to install solar panels and be energetically independent. 2. Digital technologies have created more equality among the people worldwide, and they are deflatory. It's hard to believe, but for example, the cell phone gave communications to countries with little telephone infrastructure. It's easier to install a few antennas than to install cables in every street. Remove towns in the Amazon having access to internet through Starlink.3. Internet gave chances to millions of small business and workers to make money online and compete with people all around the world. AI may point to the same direction.4. Technology usually gets cheaper. I remember when my science teacher brought a bulky GPS a couple of decades ago. Now every cellphone has a GPS. Today, there are plenty of cheap or open source models that are more than enough for most purposes. I imagine they will get even better in the future.5. Robots helping to keep tidy public areas, care for the elderly, and so on will help the middle class a lot and collapse the healthcare and care costs. We already have seen this in radiology thanks to software that helps the radiologists. 6. People losing jobs is only one side of the equation. If prices collapse for agriculture and other products thanks to robotics, even a basic income or just welfare can be more than enough for most people.7. Most new technologies, including medications, start with investments from government or wealthy people, and later become cheaper for everyone else. There is no evidence that AI is the exception.
>>109654621The only underclass that will exist is robots doing most of jobs, just as today the true underclass as workers in Asia making our products. Even in the West, the truly hard work is made by washing machines, power tools and machinery moving stuff around. People are there managing these things, but the effort is minimal compared to 50 or even 20 years ago. Robotics and AI will only expand this automated domain.My main concern is the use of land, which cannot be optimized as much as renewable resources. Water can be reused in data centers, chips become more and more efficient, etc. but if a few people have all land, then we will still struggle with housing, for example. But I don't think this is an issue caused by AI or robotics or even the elites. Most land is owned by the elderly, not companies or elites, who use their house as retirement savings.I agree that the ontological shock can be traumatic as we transition to AI and adopt more and more robotics, but we will adapt. The economy will have to adjust, just as people will have to adjust. There will always be space for a human-made market, just as today there is space for organic food or handmade products
You can probably remove 90% of current labor requirements but its not like people will sit around doing nothing its not like we can do that to begin with people will move on to tasks that matter to them
>>109654621You are missing one big part of the equation, which is natural resources. AGI or ASI will not just materialise raw purified copper out of thin air, and even if you suggest stuff like asteroid mining then you are still limited by rocket fuel and time. It will take decade even with ASI to get asteroid mining going at reliable rate, and the same goes for other planet colonisation, not to mention these projects need resources themselves that people need, so you will still have to choose between more mining rockets and feeding billion people.>But robots will mine the copperDo you think that we don’t mind more copper, or oil, or uranium, or iron, or lead, or phosphate or whatever else you can mine because there isn’t enough miners? That if we had more engineers and mechanics in mining that we could double the supply? No we are limited by number of mines and amount of energy which ASI won’t fix with fusion.
AI is decentralized until all of our gpus die and they start producing only expensive (millions of dollars) ones that only companies can buy.
>>109654621I ain't reading all that
>>109654621>AI is already more decentralized than electricity. It's easier and probably cheaper to set a server for a local model than to install solar panels and be energetically independent.this isnt even slightly true and local AI probably has under a million users
>>109654623Most land is owned by the government. And is empty. Land is not a real issue.
