This is cool! I’m sad he spends so much of his time criticising the good part (AI doing tonnes of productive labour). I say this not because I want to demand every ally agree with me on every point, but because I want to early disavow beliefs that political expediency might want me to endorse.
It seems to me a meaningfully open question whether automating all human labor will end up net benefiting humans, even assuming we survive; of course it might, but I think much more dystopian outcomes also seem plausible. Markets tend to benefit humans because the price signals we send tend to correlate with our relative needs, and hence with our welfare; I think it is not obvious that this correlation will persist once humans become unable to generate economic value.
This is cool! I’m sad he spends so much of his time criticising the good part (AI doing tonnes of productive labour). I say this not because I want to demand every ally agree with me on every point, but because I want to early disavow beliefs that political expediency might want me to endorse.
It seems to me a meaningfully open question whether automating all human labor will end up net benefiting humans, even assuming we survive; of course it might, but I think much more dystopian outcomes also seem plausible. Markets tend to benefit humans because the price signals we send tend to correlate with our relative needs, and hence with our welfare; I think it is not obvious that this correlation will persist once humans become unable to generate economic value.