alt Hacker NewsYou are missing my point; if you have no value other than unthinking manual labour to offer the world, why would the world keep you alive?
"Work" doesn't exist to keep people busy, it exists to keep them alive.
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> why would the world keep you alive?
I don't buy this. Tons of people in the West live on welfare and don't contribute shit to the economy, they are net takers. No one is plotting to kill them, in fact they're (arguably) getting more than they did 50 years ago and definitely more a 100 years ago. We live in democracies, not in a dystopian nightmare and I don't see why A.I is going to change that dynamic. People vote, people control the government, the government controls the armed forces, private citizens are not allowed to gather unregulated weapons... billionaire or no billionaire I don't see how you can beat that. And also, it's not like the billionaire class is some kind of a cohesive group that wants to work together to rule the world - they pretty much compete with and hate each other. I don't think Musk, Altman, Hassabis and Larry and Sergey are all going to agree to work together on "controling the machines" and killing all the other people.
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How is the "world"? Why does the "world" have that power? Machine owners don't have the power, for example.