Anyway, the huge modern wealth inequalities are well established—and projecting them into the future doesn’t seem especially controversial.
Projecting anything into a future with non-human intelligences is controversial. You have made an incredibly large assumption without realizing it. Please update.
If you actually want your questions answered, then money is society’s representation of utility—and I think there will probably be something like that in the future—no matter how far out you go. What you may not find further out is “people”. However, I wasn’t talking about any of that, really. I just meant while there are still money and people with bank accounts around.
We have been building intelligent machines for many decades now. If you are talking about something that doesn’t yet exist, I think you would be well advised to find another term for it.
Projecting anything into a future with non-human intelligences is controversial. You have made an incredibly large assumption without realizing it. Please update.
If you actually want your questions answered, then money is society’s representation of utility—and I think there will probably be something like that in the future—no matter how far out you go. What you may not find further out is “people”. However, I wasn’t talking about any of that, really. I just meant while there are still money and people with bank accounts around.
A few levels up, you said,
My dispute is with the notion that people with bank accounts and machine intelligence will coexist for a non-trivial amount of time.
We have been building intelligent machines for many decades now. If you are talking about something that doesn’t yet exist, I think you would be well advised to find another term for it.
Apologies; I assumed you were using “machine intelligence” as a synonym for AI, as wikipedia does.
Machine intelligence *is—more-or-less—a synonym for artificial intelligence.
Neither term carries the implication of human-level intelligence.
We don’t really have a good canonical term for “AI or upload”.