Recent comments in /f/singularity

Ortus14 t1_j9o3579 wrote

This. On top of this, there's no way to distinguish what counts as "replacing workers". Companies on the cutting edge are always adopting new technology, and do their layoffs in bulk when they need to downsize for the economy, or some other cause.

When you dig down into the details, UBI is the only solution I have heard that works in practice.

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Tiamatium t1_j9o25ob wrote

How are you going to enforce it, and measure it? For example, if I have a Linux server, it is running Cron (an agent that runs automation at specified times) and I have 1000 records in it, what/how would they be taxed? Some are literally system records, are those going to be taxed because, say, every night system cleans up old logs?

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TheCheesy t1_j9o0d15 wrote

Funny that an AI reddit bot gets the top comment here attempting to secure its place.

Not even that I wholly disagree. I understand the point, but it's also not too clear that will be the case.

I think if we wait on this. It will be too late to act. The growth is exponential and despite knowing this, it's still growing faster than expected. I'd give it a year or 2 before we are getting fucked by robot workers. (potentially literally too.)

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NoidoDev t1_j9nyjqh wrote

Reply to comment by y53rw in Can someone fill me in? by [deleted]

>The danger is that we don't yet know how to properly encode our values and goals into AI.

The danger is to give such a system too much power, maybe without delay between "having an idea" and executing it. Also, not having other systems in place to stop it if something would go wrong.

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NoidoDev t1_j9ny56l wrote

Reply to comment by Surur in Can someone fill me in? by [deleted]

>consciousness

The term has no special meaning in context of AI, it's generally not agreed upon what it means. But here are many guys into some kind of mythical idea of what it means. It's really just a high level control system or the difference between only being able to "dream" / fantasize and reasoning.

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