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With AGI you won’t need most of the human race anymore, developers are just the tip of the iceberg.

Luckily ChatGPT and the rest have nothing to do with an AI not to mention AGI.

We didn't need humans in the first place. The collective "we" can decide that we want to do anything. People have this crazy fatalistic attitude about AI taking over, billionaries ejecting to Mars and humans becoming irrelevant. Let me tell you, humans have been irrelevant since forever.

Won't need most of humanity wasting time gatekeeping and toiling, to instead focus on study and leisure.

That would be nice, to gambol in a lush, sunny meadow, perusing a leather-bound volume that we read in the original Greek or Sanskrit.

Unfortunately, I fear we will instead end up sweaty and dirty and bloodied, grappling in the parched terrain, trying to bash members of a neighboring clan with rocks and wooden clubs, while a skyline of crumbling skyscrapers looms in the distance.

Increased productivity has to more, not less toiling in the last 50 or so years. This is not gonna be different with AGI (if it ever happens). Some people will get very rich while the rest is still gonna work just as much as they are now. The jobs just gonna suck even more.

It's not AGI yet but has everything to do with it.

Hmmm. I'm going to withhold judgement until we get AGI. It might have about as much to do with it as the invention of the wheel and the lunar buggy.

How will you know when it's sufficiently general?

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