> society will collapse,
The great promise of robotics and AI is the possibility of decoupling societal stability from the vagaries of the poor.
The great promise of robotics and AI is the possibility of decoupling societal stability from the vagaries of the poor.
In our current compounding-capital model, what you get is a depreciation of all human capital to zero, therefore everybody who doesn't already own capital is fucked for eternity because they have nothing to compound and get the ball rolling. Zero social mobility, absolute polarization between an AI-owning class and an own-nothing class for as long as revolution is prevented.
By having armies of semi-intelligent armed drones, that will kill the poor if they decide to riot?
We already have many things that are given away for free, whereas a 100 years ago they were considered luxury (books, pens, papers, access to knowledge in general, and in Europe - public transport and healthcare, plus to some extent food, heat and electricity).
If you’re a part of a startup ecosystem, you’ve seen how it works first hand - wealthy and successful sharing knowledge with the others.