We should just be paving the way for the necessary social safety net so they don't have to work and won't starve.
Not throw the baby out with the bath water. Who WANTS to have to work!?
"Don't invent the replicator because nobody will have to make tea. "None of this requires selling your labor to a company to pay rent on your existence. The premise that the value of a human life is equivalent to the value created for an employer is capitalist propaganda. You are not your job, and your efforts have value beyond their value to the market.
i get much more satisfaction out of preparing a meal or reading a good book than work. i like to choose what i work on, rather than be told by the prevailing wage rate what work i should do.
caring for a child is one of the most valuable and rewarding activities, but it is not rewarded monetarily. that doesn't make it less valuable or worthwhile.
So, just prepare by saving money, investing and upskilling just to keep your brain sharp to figure it out when that future hits all of us.
AI upskills faster and better than you.
> Those who care about it, they can barely do anything.
Why is that? The question is important because, as I already mentioned, kicking the can down the road doesn't work when the road abruptly ends in an abyss not far from where you are.
> just to keep your brain sharp to figure it out when that future hits all of us.
Collectively waiting to be collectively hit is the collective idea of a fish swarm swimming in front of a trawl.
So, look back. How different was 2006? For me, it feels like it just happened last year.
So, don't get excited. The prophecies that begin with "X years from now,..." - never happen.
Don't worry from now, this one already happened. Ignorance is bliss.
Anyway, outside of tech, we're at the start of a Godzilla El Nino and 6 or 7 climate tipping points already tipped; there's a genocide while we're busy having influencer-induced FOMO (1), fascism rising and resource shortages aren't getting better (Guess why gas is so high at the moment...).
But I think most of what is useful today to teach children (to be independent, persistent, empathetic, thoughtful, etc) will still be useful in whatever future we end up in. I think even skills that may be obsolete will probably be good for training their brain, like, perhaps speaking more languages won't help because we'll all have star-trek-like communicators, but the mental flexibility won't be wasted.
I'm not sure what will happen with higher studies, my kids are small. Maybe they'll study something and by the end of university there won't be a job market for it. But that could always happen, and some paths always had more career opportunities or less.
Beyond education, I try to save some money (invest in some global index fund) and hopefully that will help. I was always going to do that anyway, it just feels a bit more necessary now.
But also, I'm an antinatalist for unrelated reasons so would not have children either way.
Things will always change, there will always be jobs. AI will be a tool to use, good robots will be expensive, cheap robots will breakdown, everything will require some form of sales, management, maintenance etc.
AI could possibly throw the world into a great chaos. We've seen financial collapses before like the great depression. Who's to say that something even more disastrous couldn't happen with a tool that's unlike one we've ever seen before that can replace labor a lot faster than any tool we've ever seen before?
Tools are never just tools: they also influence the change of society to a great extent and societies have breaking points. Sales, management, and maintenance could eventually be automated also.
Lots of people would have sworn a decade ago that creative mathematical thinking was outside the domain of a machine. Now look what's happened.
Regardless of how automated parts of society become, there will always be a need for someone to do something.
You should always tinker and experiment with new things, that’s where you find opportunity.
We’ve known about global warming for years and ignored it. People know and still buy bigger cars every year.
Pick up trucks are so huge now you can’t see the child you’re about to run over and they sell like hot cakes.
In surveys truck owners say they only care about occupant safety. They know about the issue for pedestrians, they just don’t care.
Same with shifting industrial production and jobs to China. We know these things are problems for the next generation. When it comes to purchases people don’t care.
Why would AI be any different?
Most people will not care about something until it affects them directly and immediately. We can debate the reasons for this, but that time might be better spent in working around humanity's apathy. Maybe make renewable energy super cheap and easy, better tech to track pedestrians so as to not hit them etc
b) you cannot prevent that future, because the incentives are huge and enforcement is extremely hard, at all levels, from the superpowers to the individuals.
c) besides, imagine a world where most jobs are still being done by paid humans, all knowing that their work could be done much better and cheaper by a machine. Basically a world where your daily labour isn't really necessary but just a proof-of-work to get a monthly salary. Isn't that awful? I would rather take a pay cut on my last salary and use my time in a different way.
d) how will they make ends meet? Nobody knows. It might be a combination of everything being much cheaper and/or heavily subsidized, and some form of basic income.
You seem supremely confident that that will be the outcome, though. A lot of us see a lot of other possible ways this could end up, and that seem more likely considering the way the people who have the most influence have been behaving.
It seems a bit too easy to manipulate people these days. We are all manipulated, I'm no exception. It's hard to hear the talking points of some billionaires from the mouths of loved family members.
Will the few extremely rich people manage to maintain some neo-feudalism over many generations, or will they experience the guillotine? Who knows.
Scenario 1:
The future technology will be capable of handling much of current work, but we'll invent new forms of work, with more stress and higher salaries.
Salaries for people in professions that couldn't be replaced will also go up to match, making bespoke work even more expensive.
Scenario 2:
We let machines do all the work and declare a communist utopia. (Bonus: we give them names that are low in gravitas)
So far, scenario 2 hasn't happened yet, but you never know.
such a weird self centered bullshit.
AI is deeply integrated into the global fascist project. Worries about Skynet and Roko's Basilisk and the like are nonsense, but anyone concerned about fascism should be worried about the way these platforms centralize, control and generate narratives as well as manipulate people on an emotional level. AI encompasses everything that everyone hates and fears about social media, dialed up to 11.
The same way _you_ shouldn't care about twitter, online media, etc, doesn't change with AI's use.
Remember, young adults - student loan relief was socialism as we hand out hundreds and thousands of Trump Accounts across the nation for the same thing to the next generation.