PrairieFella
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The difference is humans were poised to replace the work. If we achieve true superintelligence which some are predicting is coming soon (AI 2027 is a neat and scary read), humans will not be poised to replace work since no human can hold a candle to the cognitive abilities of a superintelligence by definition. At that point superintelligence could design the hardware to replace human labour in the physical world since by definition a superintelligence could design better than any human ever could.Effectively it has already been released. Commercial companies are developing AI and uses for AI.
Why? We went from roughly 80% of people employed in agriculture to maybe 2% or 3% in less than 200 years. We don't have 70% unemployment. While 30% employment practically overnight would be a crisis, that's not likely to happen.
Why is it people point to "some one thing" (AI and increased port automation being two recent examples) that might increase productive output and decrease the necessary human labour, and somehow it is to be set apart from every other innovation that did the same thing, as being "bad"?
Walk down 4 blocks of any moderately-sized town's main street and catalogue the kinds of businesses you see.
Every dire prediction overlooks human ingenuity and the selfish impulse to improving one's own circumstances.
The necessary guardrails for AI pertain to the distinction between "advice" and "control", and keeping people in between the two.
We're talking either luxury space communism at that point or Skynet haha (only kinda joking on that).
