on artificial intelligence

[@thethegreenmachine]

All that extra productivity just goes to the bosses. Everyone else somehow winds up working more hours than ever. The average work week should be 12 hours by now.

[@gailforce]

Less menial labour = more creative labour

[@apocyldoomer]

Hey Earl, it’s been a looong minute, you prolly don’t remember me, but a few years ago, I uploaded a “coffee with Earl video” on a beach in NJ. Anyway, I’m hitting the sack, I’ll watch the rest of your vid later on.

[@bikemessenger7]

Oh I definitely remember you! good to see you!

[@apocyldoomer]

@@bikemessenger7 👍🏽

[@gailforce]

Life has taught me that intelligence is pretty rare so why don't we make some? Ai will have us all on universal basic income in no time

[@thethegreenmachine]

That all depends on who owns and controls the ai. You're not looking at the trends.

[@gailforce]

@@thethegreenmachine anything that gets us closer to ditching working for the sake of working is a bonus imo. Let it burn!

[@thethegreenmachine]

@@gailforce Are you volunteering to become one of the starving homeless? That's the direction we're going in right now -- a few rich families with their serfs and vassals (the human kind and the technological kind) and the vast discarded remainder.

[@gailforce]

@@thethegreenmachine I'm willing to believe that such things won't occur in democracies.

[@thethegreenmachine]

@@gailforce This is demonstrably an oligarchy. Government does mainly what the rich want and not what everyone else wants (unless it's not against what the rich want).