Sora Is Shutting Down?

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CaptainExplosion said:

sc94597 said:

I alluded to societies where one's worth isn't tied to one's capacity to wage labor. There are countries in Europe that have had double digit unemployment rates for decades (i.e Spain) and artists can survive and even thrive. It seems exotic to the Anglosphere because much of Anglosphere's common culture, especially in North America, is rooted in cultural Calvinism where one's means of living must be justified by labor and being idle is looked down upon. Other societies exist where people can create art for its own sake and still live happily with their needs met. 

Also displacement from AI isn't something that only affects artists. My paid occupation isn't in art, but the hiring is way down because of AI. The more people affected, the more likely a solution will arise though. If it were just a problem that affected digital artists, then it would be a lot worse than it being a problem that affects a third to half of all occupations in the next decade (if not more.) 

How do we stop this? All I can think of is destroying AI data centers, but somehow destroying the technology that's ruining the economy makes ME the extremist.

I need AI to die because with all the jobs taken by AI I won't have nearly the income needed to have my own home. I'm in the my 30s, still living with my parents, and when they're gone I may have nowhere to go, all because of AI and the short sighted CEOs who glorified it, even trying to justify it's existence by saying "We're streamlining treatment of severe ailments!".

I don't think it is possible to totally stop technologies from proliferating once they've started. I think the best thing we can do is to create a society where that proliferation does the least harm. We already have social technologies to solve this problem. 

Examples: 

1. Housing first policy for everyone, regardless of their labor status. (see: Finland, formerly Utah - oddly) 

2. Community programs that support creative endeavors independent of commodification, because artists are most free to produce when it isn't for a commodity product, but rather a unique output and expression. (see: many European countries)

3. Strong environment regulations on data centers, maybe coupled with renewable clean energy initiatives. 

4. Changes to unemployment insurance taxes that heavily penalize corporations that automate so that the bulk of the savings go to the public which needs to deal with the negative effects of automation. Use this to fund a citizens dividend. The more automation the bigger that citizen dividend becomes, automatically. 

5. Shifting from housing as a store and accumulator of wealth. Housing should primarily be a shared need, not a commodity that one can arbitrage on. In many countries housing isn't the mechanism which people store their wealth. Instead wealth is stored in public pensions and sovereign funds (see: Norway.) 

We already see fragments of what needs to be done in various societies. It just needs to be comprehensively packaged, and universalized.