[samvher]

What kind of preparation are you suggesting?

[johnny_canuck]

Start learning a trade

[whynotminot]

I feel like that’s just kicking the can a little further down the road.

Our value proposition as humans in a capitalist society is an increasingly fragile thing.

[jorblumesea]

that's going to work when every white collar worker goes into the trades /s

who is going to pay for residential electrical work lol and how much will you make if some guy from MIT is going to compete with you

[sigmoid10]

This is far too broad to summarise here. You can read up on Sutskever or Bostrom or hell even Steven Hawking's ideas (going in order from really deep to general topics). We need to discuss everything - from education over jobs and taxes all the way to the principles of politics, our economy and even the military. If we fail at this as a society, we will at the very least create a world where the people who own capital today massively benefit and become rich beyond imagination (despite having contributed nothing to it), while the majority of the population will be unemployable and forever left behind. And the worst case probably falls somewhere between the end of human civilisation and the end of our species.

[astrange]

One way you can tell this isn't realistic is that it's the plot of Atlas Shrugged. If your economic intuitions produce that book it means they are wrong.

> while the majority of the population will be unemployable and forever left behind

Productivity improvements increase employment. A superhuman AI is a productivity improvement.

[kelseyfrog]

What we're going to do is punt the questions and then convince ourselves the outcome was inevitable and if anything it's actually our fault.