alt Hacker NewsThere's a bit of a circular argument here - even if we human always assign intrinsic value to ourselves and our kin, I don't see a clear argument that human capabilities will have external value to the economy at large.
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AlexandrB • yesterday at 5:56 PM
"The economy" is humans spending money on stuff and services. So if humands always assign intrinsic value to ourselves and our kin...
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"The economy" is entirely driven by human needs.
If you "unwind" all the complexities in modern supply chains, there are always human people paying for something they want at the leaf nodes.
Take the food and clothing industries as obvious examples. In some AI singularity scenario where all humans are unemployed and dirt poor, does all the food and clothing produced by the automated factories just end up in big piles because we naked and starving people can't afford to buy them?