I am not worried about an evil, monstrous AGI suddenly emerging and blowing away humanity, but I do worry about things like this. Hyperpornography seems a squarely apocalyptic trend.
One thing, though: it's squarely in the realm of hyperstimulus. We're a world of seagull chicks, (ahem) pecking at a red spot on a piece of cardboard because it's bigger than that of a real seagull Mom.
It's not that difficult to outperform the fairly mediocre state of typical human seduction, even in times of comfort and opportunity. When things go sideways it becomes all the more troublesome.
Doing all of that while the available labour, researchers, economic output and tax base shrink is a dangerous minefield to walk through. It may result in a feedback loop that crashes everything.
One of the scariest things to consider is if we are replacing 2 people in a position with 1 person then that single person now needs to learn the tacit knowledge and technical skill of 2 people they are replacing. That’s a recipe for lost knowledge and regression if I ever saw one.
Automating what? The idea of production is to make things for people. As people are exterminated, there is less need for that level of production and the labour.
> We need to fund our social safety nets somehow.
The elderly has a gigantic amount of wealth as it is right now. They can finance all safety nets needed for their elderly peers, but prefer to just tax the youth even more and if that means young people can't afford families that's no concern of them.
This project is much better, but still might turn out badly. Hard to say...
It’s all bad. This is one of the few areas that I support an all out ban
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