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Technological progress automating away work to the extent that we don't have to all slog for 40-80 hours a week just to be able to afford food and shelter is a wonderful thing. So don't blame AI, but instead the social and economic systems we have created that cannot accept this reality.

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You’re relying on the hope that the people with money and power would be willing to share that with everyone else. They wouldn’t. Our entire economic system is based on the principle that people are inherently selfish.

Which is what I'm saying. Technological progress will happen whether we like it or not. If we want to continue to be able to afford food, rather than ranting against AI and calling for its ban we need to instead work to fix the economic system so AI can be used for good. Relying on the charity of corporations for basic survival was always a bad idea.

The economic system isn’t the problem. Human nature is the problem. And it’s immutable.

Unless there’s something like UBI, where’s that food coming from if you’re not working the hours?

The AI is working the hours. That's the entire point.

what a wonderful bubble you must live in where you actually envision the decision makers allowing this to happen without significant turmoil first

The turmoil is usually necessary before real change can happen.

A human will unfortunately need do it, because Agricultural Equipment Operators have no exposed tasks to LLMs [0]. We'll need other AI advancements.

[0]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.10130v4.pdf

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