I think there’s no need for secrecy. If AI can develop a datacenter maintained by robots or other similar tech, human companies will be happy to buy and sell it, and help with the parts the AI can’t yet do. Think of it as a “rising tide” scenario, where the robot sector of the economy outgrows the human sector. Money translates to power, as the robot sector becomes the highest bidder for security services, media influence, lobbying etc. When there comes a need to displace humans from some land and resources, it might look to humans less like a war and more like a powerful landlord pushing them out, with few ways to organize and push back. Similar to enclosures in early-modern England.
Capitalists just kicking workers out of the process step by step, then finding out at the very last minute that they have outlived their usefulness to the Machine God.
That’s one way to look at it, though I wouldn’t put the blame on capitalists only. Workers will also prefer to buy goods and services produced with the help of AI, because it’s cheaper. If workers could get over their self-interest and buy only certified AI-free goods and services, the whole problem would stop tomorrow, with all AI companies going out of business. Well, workers won’t get over their self-interest; and neither will capitalists.
Workers will also prefer to buy goods and services produced with the help of AI, because it’s cheaper.
Well, Moloch does as Moloch wants. But honestly I still tend to place more blame on the people who in smaller numbers kick the process in motion than on the people who simply respond to incentives while dealing with a vastly larger coordination problem in conditions of greater scarcity. The smaller the group and the more their abundance, the easier it is to choose to run against Moloch, and the greater the responsibility if you go along anyway.
I think there’s no need for secrecy. If AI can develop a datacenter maintained by robots or other similar tech, human companies will be happy to buy and sell it, and help with the parts the AI can’t yet do. Think of it as a “rising tide” scenario, where the robot sector of the economy outgrows the human sector. Money translates to power, as the robot sector becomes the highest bidder for security services, media influence, lobbying etc. When there comes a need to displace humans from some land and resources, it might look to humans less like a war and more like a powerful landlord pushing them out, with few ways to organize and push back. Similar to enclosures in early-modern England.
Capitalists just kicking workers out of the process step by step, then finding out at the very last minute that they have outlived their usefulness to the Machine God.
That’s one way to look at it, though I wouldn’t put the blame on capitalists only. Workers will also prefer to buy goods and services produced with the help of AI, because it’s cheaper. If workers could get over their self-interest and buy only certified AI-free goods and services, the whole problem would stop tomorrow, with all AI companies going out of business. Well, workers won’t get over their self-interest; and neither will capitalists.
Well, Moloch does as Moloch wants. But honestly I still tend to place more blame on the people who in smaller numbers kick the process in motion than on the people who simply respond to incentives while dealing with a vastly larger coordination problem in conditions of greater scarcity. The smaller the group and the more their abundance, the easier it is to choose to run against Moloch, and the greater the responsibility if you go along anyway.