alt Hacker News> but if everyone can do everything without any effort, it is no longer valuable
It's called utopia.
But my issue with AI hype is that it's not clear how it will lead to "everyone can do anything." Like how is it going to free up lands so everyone can afford a house with yard if they want?
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FranzFerdiNaN • today at 8:14 AM
> It's called utopia.
Its not. We already see this on social media: creating pictures and clips has become basically effortless and the result isnt utopia, its a massive steaming pile of worthless shit.
zwnow • today at 7:18 AM
Sorry, but its quite the opposite. Its dystopia considering only the already rich really benefit from it.
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Everyone productive and working can afford a house with a yard now. You’ll be a few dozen miles from others.
If you want everyone to be able to afford a house with a yard within walking distance of downtown Palo Alto, there aren’t enough of them for everyone that wants to do that, and AI (and utopia) can’t change that. Proximity to others creates scarcity because of basic physical laws. This is why California is expensive.
This is something I always wondered about in Banks’ post-scarcity utopian Culture novels. How do they decide who gets to live next door to the coolest/best restaurant or bar or social gathering place? Does Hub (the AI that runs the habitat, and notionally is the city) simply decide and adjudicate like a dictator or king?