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Seriously. The wealth of continents is being shoveled into developing AI with greater and greater capabilities. They're trying to solve a trillion dollar problem. What's that problem? Paying you for your labor. That's the problem AI is being created to solve.
Yes, petawatt-hours of electricity are being expended from second to second so that people can say "Grok, if I shrank to the size of a pencil eraser, how many ants could I fight?" and "Make a video of my cat kung-fu fighting raccoons," but serious people are already doing serious things with it. Pharma companies are already using LLMs and neural networks to design new drugs, for example, which is great unless you went into debt to get a degree in biochemistry and you end up loading and unloading trucks for minimum wage at Lowe's. AI is already doing for STEM what it has done for Twitter artists who live on their commissions.
The end state is going to be a 99.9% unemployment rate. If you are very, very lucky, the people at the top who are pushing for this and promising Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism are going to throw you a few crumbs in the form of UBI and a pod in which to sleep and eat. That's the best case and assumes the people pushing this have a tiny amount of foresight, which is dubious. It's very likely they are going to tear down the economies of every industrialized nation on the planet from within their gated communities, rubbing their hands and giggling like toddlers the whole time. They might imagine they can hire half the poor people to hold the other half at gunpoint so as not to inconvenience them too much. What is clear is that they intend to live like Pharaohs and to the extent that whether you have food and a roof over your head is a concern to them, it's to mitigate the risk of you breaking into their sixth vacation cottage in the Poconos for shelter after one of the hedge funds they own, which owns the apartment building you currently inhabit, raises the rent and evicts you after an AI takes your job. They may or may not be considering anything whatsoever beyond "All the money's going to be mine! MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE! Fuck the peasants! Let 'em eat cake! MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE"
One of the things you will notice when you read history, if you are sensitive to the nuances of human behavior and have some grasp of human nature, is that, as the man says, it's always been power, self-interest, and violence all the way down. We are on the verge of an era where this will be made especially manifest and a lot of the comforting social constructs to which we cling are going to be demonstrated to be, at best, euphemisms.
We live in interesting times. It's one of the reasons I try so desperately to distract myself with waifur pictures.
