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CaptainExplosion on 04 March 2024
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Soundwave said:
sc94597 said:

I think it is funny how people can imagine the banning of broad technology before they can imagine the end of capitalism.

The problem you described is a problem with a system based on large-scale wage-labor, but wage-labor needn't be the dominant relationship of production and distribution in a new economic system.

The printing-press is an example of a technological revolution leading to a readjustment of the social relationship. With its invention we saw a multi-century transition from manorialism (where most people were tied to the land and worked as agricultural workers for lords) to capitalism (where most people worked for wages.) Likewise, with the mass-automation of most wage-labor via A.I and robotics we'll probably see an entirely new economic system. Those countries that attempt to ban the technology rather than evolve into a new economic system will decline just as those empires and kingdoms that banned the printing press declined, because they'll be less productive. 

Yeah it'll be called a government system where a government has control over whatever you get and thus have absolute power which couldn't possibly lead to terrible results. I'm sure they'll also let you criticize them and maintain free speech when they control your entire salary or whatever it is they'll give you. 

Also I'm sure this all knowing, rapidly evolving AI will just agree to always work under the boot of humans, like a 20 year old imprisoned by 5 year olds. 

The printing press was purely an additive piece of technology, it improved human life without upsetting the whole apple cart and throwing people's roles in society up in the air. The only people really put out by that were a few people who had to transcribe text by hand, which was like what? 0.00000000000000000001% of the population? The printing press created entire industries for people to work in (newpapers, magazines, books, advertising, libraries etc.). 

Which jobs is AI going to create? In the long run even AI researchers/programmers that work to improve the AI can be replaced by ... AI, lol. The designers who make the processors for AI ... can be placed ... by AI. 

Again, I hate it when I'm right. It's like all we can do is just sit back and wait for the AI-induced apocalypse. -_-