Yeah. I think the main reason democracy exists at all is because people are necessary for skilled labor and for fighting wars. If that goes away, the result will be a world where money and power just discards most people. Why some people think “oh we’ll implement UBI if it comes to that”, I have no idea. When it “comes to that”, there won’t be any force powerful enough to implement UBI and interested in doing so. My cynical view is that the promise of distributing AI benefits in the future is a distraction: look over there, while we take all power.
Yeah. I think the main reason democracy exists at all is because people are necessary for skilled labor and for fighting wars. If that goes away, the result will be a world where money and power just discards most people. Why some people think “oh we’ll implement UBI if it comes to that”, I have no idea. When it “comes to that”, there won’t be any force powerful enough to implement UBI and interested in doing so. My cynical view is that the promise of distributing AI benefits in the future is a distraction: look over there, while we take all power.