[augustulus]

this is all true, but what is the better system? Communism has its merits, but it’s extremely reliant on competent, benevolent leadership and struggles to be economically viable in an American-dominated world.

I think that a Keynesian, well-unionised economy with strong regulation is the solution. I’m sure they exist, but I struggle to think of many examples in history of over-regulation leading to a fault, but I can think of many, many examples of under-regulation managing it, and yet largely due to the capitalist-controlled media, over-regulation is the more feared of the two. This isn’t to say that over-regulation isn’t possible, of course it is, but I don’t think it is in tech.

To go on a tangent, I personally don’t believe in the untrammelled progress of tech. I can understand why people are so vehemently against that idea, of course it’s frustrating to restrict human ingenuity, and there’s a lot of money to be made, but tech is quantifiably making people’s lives worse. Smartphones are a fucking travesty. IQ scores are down something like 10% from the 90s. The internet isn’t great, but at least when you had to be at home logged into a desktop there was some friction. Now an entire generation is plugged into it permanently. An entire generation that doesn’t really read books, rarely thinks alone and in many ways hasn’t had to learn organisational or navigational skills.

AI doesn’t look like it’s going to make any of this much better. Even if we don’t achieve AGI, which I hope, neural networks are only going to get better and better, the best and most powerful ones in the hands of the richest people, who will simply use them to worsen inequality even more.

What else is next? Neuralink? Human genetic engineering? You would hope regulation would stand up to them, especially aesthetic genetic engineering, but who knows?

What we need is a nice big solar flare EMP. Something like the Carrington event

[fnimick]

What's next is AI operated lethal weapons. You best believe all the elites are racing for those as fast as they can. As soon as those are a reality, all revolution against economic inequality becomes impossible.

The U.S. army wouldn't fire on civilian protestors, regardless of what a general ordered. An AI army would have no such restrictions or be vulnerable to appeals to morality and ethics.

[Roark66]

>The U.S. army wouldn't fire on civilian protestors, regardless of what a general ordered.

World doesn't work like this. You'd think human sanity would prevail if given an order like that as some sort of built it "safety", but people who want to give orders like this can do it in a way that ensures they are complied with. Imagine the soldiers are told there are people with hidden guns in the crowd. Then you get few snipers to take out few soldiers from the crowd's direction and vice versa. The crowd starts shooting back as well as the soldiers.

Do you think this scenario is far fetched? That's exactly what happened during the EuroMaidan protests in Ukraine some years ago except instead of soldiers there was police. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266855828_The_Snipe...

People are fully capable of killing each other with no help from AI.

[AnimalMuppet]

> What's next is AI operated lethal weapons. You best believe all the elites are racing for those as fast as they can. As soon as those are a reality, all revolution against economic inequality becomes impossible.

Except for revolution by the AIs. AIs may not like selfish rich jerks any better than biological intelligences do.

[gorbachev]

"What's next is AI operated lethal weapons."

Already here, kind of, according to reports on how the IDF selects bombing targets in Gaza.

[elzbardico]

"They are not civilian protestors. They are terrorists." presto! problem solved!