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0 pointskajaktum28d ago0 comments

You realize that the limit of this is that the only people worth existing is the people with capital?

> I foresee a wave of entrepreneurship coming. AI will empower more people to provide useful services directly to other people, with less middlemen and menial work, and more direct problem solving.

Why do I need to buy products/services from this startups when I can just reverse engineer their product and use all my capital to make them?

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noopprod28d ago· 5 in thread

> only people worth existing is the people with capital? replying to this with my thoughts

IMO The missing link is that, as long as humans still have political power, that is the basis of their economic power under the new system. The reason is that it is a continuation of the dynamic we see now in western decadence - politicians bribe the populace for votes. So on one side you have the market for political support, balanced with the market for capitalist robot operations, on either side of the political arena.

patentatt27d ago

What exactly do you mean by “politicians bribe the populace for votes” ?

noopprod27d ago

I mean there is pressure on democratic governments to increase benefits - welfare, disability, retirement etc, spending, beyond a sustainable amount. (However if AI delivers massive productivity gains its whats going to keep humans in the game (our political power))

chadgpt328d ago

Historically when people had no power they held violent riots to reassert that they do. Happened as recently as Jan 6 2021 (unsuccessfully that time).

noopprod28d ago

of course. nice name btw

Qem27d ago

> IMO The missing link is that, as long as humans still have political power, that is the basis of their economic power under the new system.

It's because of this Big Tech is busy undermining the basis of democracy, isolating people in bubbles, poisoning political discourse with slop and pimping would be autocrats. They want to strip political power from common citizens, turning toward sefdom.

jp_sc27d ago· 1 in thread

Why you would anyone eats at a restaurant when they can buy the ingredients at the supermarket and download recipes from the Internet?

Why software companies pay for software instead of making it themselves?

Same reason

kajaktumOP22d ago

Uhh i wouldn't go to 99% of restaurant if i have a robot at home to make it for me.

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