Depending on what you did, there was a massive wave of right sizing in the 80s, just as computers were becoming more popular.

Things like secretarial pools went away.

Yes, programmers of various flavors came into high demand, eventually creating more jobs than were lost,

The difference is, this time you won’t need more people to program the computers, you will need fewer. There will be no new high positions created for those displaced.

It depends. We cannot see the other side of a singularity.

We could have an alignment issue and end up as paper clips.

AI could solve everything from climate change to social inequality by reducing the human race to 50 million Stone Age hunter gatherers.

Or, you could have the top 1% living in a utopia while everyone else is living in a dystopia.

China is pouring money into AI research.

You are setting the bar as anything less than perfect is failure.

By that standard, most humans would fail. And most experts are only going to be an expert in one field, not every field, so they would also fail by your standards.

Try explaining to Balto and Togo that the finish line didn’t have an expiration date.

I’m not religious and don’t believe in a deterministic universe.

But, I’m not going to mock others beliefs. Just ask interesting questions.

Or is that also part of the plan?

The WEBTOON Adventures of God has this gag done multiple times over the years.

Satan takes the requests very seriously, and not all of them are mistakes.

Continuation: from the copies perspective they are me and encompass all that I have ever been.

If there are multiple copies then, when I come to a fork in the road, I chose both. No more wondering what happens on the path not chosen.

In more practical terms, in the future there come well be journeys from which there can be no return. I.e., the clones will never have a chance of meeting. Be that separate simulations with no crossover or colony ships headed in different directions. From the copies point of view, each would be the sole version of me.

And point of view is everything.

>This is literally just philosophy

I already agreed that is was philosophy.

Anything that cannot be tested falls under philosophy, and it is impossible to test if we are living in a simulation.

It would be from the copies perspective.

And in the many-worlds scenario, it is 100% indisputably you. A near infinite number of you, each diverging from each other.

A simple DNA sample would be nothing more than an identical twin with an age difference, not a mental copy.

That’s obviously not the end goal.

There is a difference between listening and having your life dictated by.

There are plenty of wildly successful people who would have been been successful if they had given in to peer pressure or listened to their peers.

Simulations, downloading into a biological body, many-world theory.

Choose your scenario.

https://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation

Most likely not identifiable as human by modern standards.

No, each version of me would be responsible for their own actions.

To put it another way, if there were 10 copies of me, each would be me from their perspective.

They would each also be unique individuals as they would each begin to diverge from me, and each other, at the moment of their separation.

There is no way to prove you don’t live in a simulation or are not a Boltzmann brain.

Simulation Theory does have math behind it.

It is also a philosophical debate as it is not testable.

Fortunately, not everyone cares about others opinions.

Some people are capable of independent thought instead of just going along with peer pressure.

I would.

If a simulated version of myself thinks and feels as if it was me, then it is me from its perspective.

You would need to replace 15-20 people in the Senate and probably the same number in the House.

People willing to radically restructure the tax code and entitlement programs.

1. I would give it closer to 15-20 years. Congress won’t act until it’s turns into a widespread disaster.
2. UBI, if it happens, will be a stripped down version of current welfare systems. It won’t be free money.

Very unethical.

But how do you stop it?

It would take very little effort to use merged photos of real children in the generation of images.