I don’t think this post addresses the main problem. Consider the exchange ratio between labor and land. You need land to live, and your food needs land to be grown. Will you be able to afford more land use for the same work hours, or less? (As programmer, manager, CEO, super high productivity job, whatever.) Well, if the same land can be used to run AIs that can do your job N times over, then from your labor you won’t be able to afford it, and that closes the case.
So basically, the only way the masses can survive long term is by some kind of handouts. It won’t just happen by itself due to tech progress and economic laws.
Actually, AIs can use other kinds of land (to suggest from the top of the head, sky islands over oceans, or hot air balloons for a more compact option) to be run, which are not usable by humans. There have to be a whole lot of datacenters to make people short on land—unless there are new large factories built.
I don’t think this post addresses the main problem. Consider the exchange ratio between labor and land. You need land to live, and your food needs land to be grown. Will you be able to afford more land use for the same work hours, or less? (As programmer, manager, CEO, super high productivity job, whatever.) Well, if the same land can be used to run AIs that can do your job N times over, then from your labor you won’t be able to afford it, and that closes the case.
So basically, the only way the masses can survive long term is by some kind of handouts. It won’t just happen by itself due to tech progress and economic laws.
Actually, AIs can use other kinds of land (to suggest from the top of the head, sky islands over oceans, or hot air balloons for a more compact option) to be run, which are not usable by humans. There have to be a whole lot of datacenters to make people short on land—unless there are new large factories built.