>I think we will see 68-80 hour average work weeks (not through mandate or force either, but because that's what people will be inclined towards).

LOL

Oh yeah I was just sharing a possible solution to one side

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Death by capitalism, or death by machines. But you know I feel more optimistic about an ASI taking care of me then I do our current people in power. So honestly what do I got to lose?

What is the same company simultaneously releases 2 AGI, to check and balance eachother?

That's because construction work or blue collar jobs aren't treated with respect. Lawyers, Engineers, Scientists are respected and their jobs carry social status. The jobs of blue collar people are looked down upon. If it wasn't for construction workers there would be no schools, buildings, airports, cities etc. They are the people who built modern civilization.

I’m in agreement, I’m anxiously optimistic for what the future holds. And after the better part of almost two decades of just drastically declining society, it’d be nice to for once feel like something good could be coming.

The limitless potential is really the stuff of dreams - just gotta make sure we don’t turn the universe into a giant paper clip by accident

Definitely wearying ...

But, also, asked them why the AI in Terminator went bad? The only answer, because none is even given, is 'Because the plot needed to happen'.

The official story is that it just became sentient and said 'Yeah, those humans that have learned and created and ultimately organized themselves into countries and finally built me from the ground up? Terrible! Get rid of them!'

It never says why, we're just expected to be so self loathing that it makes sense, so we never question it.

It doesn't make sense to use stats from prior to MODERN history and labor rights. You picking fucking 1870 shows you have an angle to begin with and are trying to distort facts. Slimy piece of shit.

"Using data by the U.S. BLS, the productivity per American worker has increased 434% since 1950. One way to look at that is that it should take less than one-quarter the work hours, or less than 10 hours per week, to afford the same standard of living as a worker in 1950 (in other words: our standard of living should be over 4 times higher than it is). Why isn’t this happening?"

The productivity-pay gap is well known, this graphic is not new.

Yeah you’re right. Honestly I just want to get enough money where I can buy a few acres of land, build a house with solar and get a water well dug. Maybe a few goats and chickens

Well it wasn't Microsoft before they bought it right.

I was referring to existential risks. You’re completely misrepresenting the concern.

Interesting but my expectations are low

I guess technical writers should turn to hardware documentation, then. At least until AI can do that too lmao

It is quite often said on here that the only two possibilities are utopia or our extinction. There are other possibilities.

For example an ASI could decide it wants humans to suffer. It could extend our life times for eons after maximizing our potential for physical pain beyond it's current potential level and torture us until heat death occurs.

I tend to think utopia is more likely, but let's not forget, that there are things worse than death on the table.

GPT4 suggests The Singularity Dichotomy.

Buzzfeed already fired writers

Yep. And when it doesn't work, we won't be around to notice it doesn't work.

It's anthropic principles all the way down.

Most white collar workers would rather kill themselves than do what you did, that's just the unfortunate reality.

What if humans are just meaty noisemakers who push rocks around into shapes.

Measure me think of sentient yogurt.

This isn't even my final form.

I've been thinking the same, and I agree

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I have a proposition that I call the "AI Lifeline Iniative"

If someone's job gets replaced with AI we would then provide them a portion of their previous salary as long as the company is alive.

For example:

Let's say Stacy makes $100,000 a year.

She gets replaced with AI. But instead of getting fired she gets a reduced salary down to let's say $35,000 a year. Now she can go home and not worry about returning to work but still get paid.

This would help our society transition into an AI based economy.