| Soundwave said: 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. |
There are many alternatives to state-socialism.
My more optimistic bet, after there is a period of instability, is that we'll see the abolition of most intellectual property, private ownership of natural resources, and most production will be automated peer production for direct use. Prices for things will approach their marginal cost, which itself will approach 0. There might still exist markets, but they won't be for commodities, but rather specialized goods.
The printing press wasn't a purely additive piece of technology. It fundamentally changed the social and religious systems of Europe. Its invention, for example, allowed Protestantism to rise in Europe and was a precedent for the transition into capitalism and wage-labor. Almost every major European war in the 16th and 17th centuries could be attributed to its invention.
