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Soundwave said:
sc94597 said:

Sorry, it is far easier to change an economic system to one that isn't based on wage-labor than fix decaying ecological systems or solve the problem of mass-displacement. 

We've changed economic systems multiple times in the last dozen millennia and its a matter of restructuring laws surrounding property and social relationships. 

You can't do the same thing with local and global ecologies. 

As for the fear of some Singleton AI, it is pure fantasy. Assertions based not in empirical reality but random assumptions are easily discarded. For every Terminator scenario there is The Culture.

So if somebody is going to make the argument that an ASI is going to immediate arise and kill us all, it better be by looking at actual AI systems and understanding what they are. Which you aren't doing. 

I frankly don't even care where we are today. That's not my concern. My concern is where this will be in 20, 30 years, that's where even the "well it's not there today!" folks tend to get a bit quiet and shrug their shoulders.

30 years is not a long period of time, I remember 30 years ago like it was yesterday. 

What exists today and the research that is done today is the precedent and determines the range of possibilities for what exists 20-30 years from now.