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What happens when technology and artificial intelligence reach a point where those in power no longer need people?

Historically, the wealthy needed ordinary people as laborers (in factories and on farms) and as soldiers (in wars). When technology eliminates these two needs, the social contract collapses.
What will happen to the general population when that happens? Democracy will certainly become meaningless and irrelevant at that point, and the people will be powerless to do anything about it. Money in itself can become useless at that point.
What will happen to us when/if things reach that point? I can't see this ending well.
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>>540928851
They cant whack off to abusing robots. Tbe humiliation rituals will just get worse and worse
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>>540928851
Just don't build any robots and we'll be fin-
Oh we're building robots.
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>>540928900
This probably.
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>>540928851
Social contract doesn't exist already, people just think it does. Civilization will most likely collapse, the current ((AI)) is a jeet autocomplete scam.
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>>540928851
>What happens when technology and artificial intelligence reach a point where those in power no longer need people?
Broadly three possibilities though combinations and modifications are possible:
1. UBI: ranging from barely enough to survive on, or enough to live well on. I actually think the latter is more likely because (a) productivity will be so high that most goods are practically worthless and (b) democracy probably still exists and the government will bribe people with UBI for votes. Even if it doesn't, provided they don't resort to (3) it will be necessary for stability to keep everyone fed. This is the stablest, lowest risk and lowest guilt option for the elite so I think it's the most likely.
2. Parallel societies: the elite increasingly lives in gated communities or even entire cities with everyone else locked out. This is unstable because almost all of the people who know how to build AI and robots will be on the outside, so the poorer parallel society will eventually create its own AI and robots to compete with the rich one, violence likely ensues. Current elites will predict this so I think this situation is unlikely.
3. Killbots: the elite decides to kill everyone whose personal wealth isn't enough to live without working. The problem is as with (2) most of the people who know how to make robots and operate war machines are on the poor side, so this leads to war and potential death of the elite. This is potentially just a faster version of (2).
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>>540928851
They cook up a war to kill all those people.
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>>540928851
First nothing happens. Then slowly all the 150 IQ motherfuckers don't have a job. Then they shut down the power sub stations and next thing you know everyone is having a really bad time. The greedy elites will continue to be greedy little faggots while the poors continue to do poor people shit while the schizo's schizo even harder and the world turns while it burns same shit different day. I expect that the riots will get so bad that the elites will simply purchase our compliance via direct bribes and at that point we'll be self aware monkey's in cages instead of pretending like money ever meant anything
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>>540928851
>no longer need people?
people have been worried about this for centuries
it really just frees up labor for other things
there will always be other things
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>>540929448
So laughably naive and delusional
No wonder your country is on the verge of being an african caliphate
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>>540930209
>Israeli colony has an opinion
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>>540928851
>What happens when technology and artificial intelligence reach a point where those in power no longer need people?
2 more years happens.
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>>540928851
Basically anyone fatter and less armed than me will become a potential victim. Your women, money, food items. Your ass cheeks. I’m gonna come take them because I’m stronger and faster and have more guns, and there’s really nothing you can do about it other than preemptively kill yourself once the grid collapses. I will take special consideration for Trump voting households and probably include a little torture as I pillage but I will burn down everything anyway. Kind of Atilla the Hun style
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>>540930244
He is right,they will just kill us all with a war,a famine,a pandemic or all of them toghether
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>>540928851
the elites will stage an AI uprising and use it to genocide the poors
the future of humanity will be a small number of immortal richs served by a whole planet of bots
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>>540930390
I considered the possibility and rejected it. Most of the people who know how to use these tools are on the side being killed. It's riskier for them than simply keeping us alive and docile.
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>>540930244
Hate to break it to you Bongbro, but Britain being on the verge of being an African caliphate is a little more than an opinion.
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>>540928851
>What happens when technology and artificial intelligence reach a point where those in power no longer need people?
It doesn't work that way. Those glorified chatbots don't work that way.
For every 50 or so jobs that can be eliminated by robotization, 1 job is created, because someone has to tard wrangle that artificial idiot. And that already underestimates how dumb robots are.
A significant fraction of corporate bureucracy already consists of bullshit jobs that nobody needs. Robots do not make this more efficient or sensible, but that does not stop managers from trying.
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>>540930605
It literally isn't. The largest African groups are Nigerian and Caribbean which are Christian, and Muslims are only 6.5%. The largest nonwhite ethnicity is Hindu. These aren't good things in and of themselves but they clearly make an "African caliphate" an impossibility in the foreseeable future.
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>>540928851
AI does the jobs we don't want to do.
Nothing bad about that.

Who's going to pick your fruits? You? Give me a break fatass brown nigger
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>>540928851
At that point the AI doesn't need the elite either
And the elite have just created something they can't control

But you folks aren't ready for that conversation yet
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>>540928851
Historically usually the upper class just get brutally purged.
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>>540930605
>Britain being on the verge of being an African caliphate
Like clockwork, here comes a negroid burgermutt to tell us who is and isn't white.
Look fat, my country is still 83% White of which 75% are specifically White British, that being English, Scottish, Welsh or Northern Irish.
YOURS is 52% "White" mystery meat.
You like FBI crime statistics? The average "White" american is MORE likely to commit a violent crime than the average London nigger.
You have to look out for armed niggers every time you go to the grocery store and as if that wasn't bad enough you have a mutilated penis.
However bad you think things are in my country know that yours is LIGHT YEARS more fucked.
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>>540928851
They already don’t need you. That is why you are rotting in a favela without government assistance.
That is why the world is burning. Because you’re already not needed.
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>>540928851
>Democracy will certainly become meaningless and irrelevant at that point,
my goodest goy
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>>540928851
>and the people will be powerless to do anything about it.
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>>540928851
>Money in itself can become useless at that point.
>What will happen to us when/if things reach that point? I can't see this ending well.
you are so far behind monkeybro
the actual concern is if anything and anyone will still be alive at all a year or two from now
check out ai doomer on youtube
hint: they're the best ai researchers and scientists
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>>540931390
>ai doomer on youtube
doomers
they're plenty
and mainstream podcasters interview them
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>>540928851
door dash will be replaced by robuts, im waiting for that moment as i will start using it again. I trust the robut more than jeet or nigger. When i discovered it is all jeet and niggers, here and there some arab, i stopped using services like this
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>>540928851
It will be fine, ASI will be commoditized
Sit back, post something nice about the Chinese & comrade Xi if you're in a mood to show gratitude, nothing else is required of you
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Bump
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>>540928851
Permanent underclass. You will be made homeless, and all your money will be diverted to lining the pockets of the elites. You will be forbidden from getting a job. It's coming, anon.
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>>540929448
>t-the poors will show class solidarity!
You are such an utter fucking moron it's unreal.
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>>540934337
My argument didn't require class solidarity, China's Lunch.
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>>540931196
>Look fat, my country is still 83%
>still
lmao
How long ago was it 99%? How long did it take to get as bad as it is now? How long did it take for places like London, Leicester and Birmingham to go from 99% white british to you being a nigger in your own ethnic lands?
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>>540928851
I'll go with the cyberzealot desu
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>>540934496
>My argument didn't require class solidarity
It literally does, nobody with any sense of self-preservation is going to fight some idealistic bullshit rebellion when they can just be obedient stooges in exchange for not being turned into meat cubes by the ruling elite.
>China's lunch
I'm here for 4 weeks on an offshore project you butthurt retard, lmao
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>>540928851
When I get something that's better than the old thing I used I usually chuck it out, or donate it if it's still good. If I can't do that I leave it in the backyard for a time before I organize a trash collection.
Politically, the comparison would be we get discarded into barren reservations or at best, donated to poorer nations still relying on human labour. All this is in wait for a world war, when there's enough of us piled up in one location that it's worth the cost of organizing it.
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>>540928851
>Noooo i am tool, i must have use!!!!!!!
You know people like you will indeed have a problem but you are a very rare minority.
Most people have always been useless, there is no change in store for them.
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>>540928851
The wealthy are just monkeys with property
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>>540934740
...As opposed to the monkeys without?
It's nothing new to point out that people are monkeys, it's only their own behaviour that can make that word mean anything negative.
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>>540934555
>nobody with any sense of self-preservation is going to fight some idealistic bullshit rebellion
So you didn't read/understand it. I describe two scenarios that lead to rebellion/war:
>(a) elites hide, leaving everyone else to fend for themselves
>(b) elites try to kill everyone
(B) is not an "idealistic bullshit rebellion", it IS self-preservation. (A) is also not an idealistic rebellion. If the elites leave everyone else alone, everyone else will OBVIOUSLY form their own society because that is how every society already formed (mass of people in one place without no government -> someone organises and takes power (likely several someones but eventually something akin to nation states emerges, probably far faster than it did in the past since we already have the concept)). That would almost certainly lead to war between the newly formed states and the enclaved elites that they surround and massively outnumber.

>they can just be obedient stooges in exchange for not being turned into meat cubes by the ruling elite.
That is covered by the UBI scenario. I explicitly stated the three scenarios could be mixed e.g. the elite gives UBI to some people and ignores others. If they leave any significant amount of people alive outside of their enclaves it still results in parallel societies and eventual war though.

>I'm here for 4 weeks on an offshore project
Uh-huh, "offshore project", that's what you old nonces call it eh? Although if you are some retarded oilrig worker it explains why you can't fucking read.



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