Historian Yuval Noah Harari on the Robot Revolution
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> We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian-Darwinian theory, he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.
Based on that, you could run most smaller countries with a resource revenue stream to pay police to make examples, and Google data to find them.
Sounds horrific, but we may live at the edge of some very dark times.
I have a bunch of notes for an article pitch about how AI/ML tech could easily create resource cursed economies and governance (akin to Jeffery Sachs description), but don't want to wade into writing again yet.
Sounds like an important subject though. Any chance you can share or will post an outline of your thoughts?
For me, the most interesting problems are governance & economic development models. It's obviously broken and it's obviously being supplemented by corporations to AI, so I'd appreciate your thoughts on this.
Long version involves introducing and describing the relationship between their ideas. DeMesquita gets rejected as being too abstract, but his model has useful predictive power.
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