[alexjray]

Even if they automate all our current jobs uniquely human experiences will always be valuable to us and will always have demand.

[b112]

For AI, yes.

For AGI? Do you care about uniquely ant experience? Bacteria?

Why would AGI care? Which now runs the planet?

[IncreasePosts]

Considering the lengths many people go to help preserve nature and natural areas, yes, I would sayany people care about the uniquely ant experience.

[AlexandrB]

I think it's academic because I suspect we're much further from AGI than anyone thinks. We're especially far from AGI that can act in physical space without human "robots" to carry out its commands.

[Mordisquitos]

Why would AGI choose to run the planet?

[danaris]

...Well, why would aliens care, when they take over the planet? Or the Tuatha De Danan come back and decide we've all been very wicked? Because right now, those are just about as likely as AGI taking over.

[lifetimerubyist]

> Do you care about uniquely ant experience? Bacteria?

Ethology? Biology? We have entire fields of science to these things so obviously we care to some extent.

[ramesh31]

>Even if they automate all our current jobs uniquely human experiences will always be valuable to us and will always have demand.

I call this the Quark principle. On DS9, there are matter replicators that can perfectly recreate any possible drink imaginable instantly. And yet, the people of the station still gather at Quark's and pay him money to pour and mix their drinks from physical bottles. As long as we are human, some things will never go away no matter how advanced the technology becomes.

[TheOtherHobbes]

In Star Trek lore replicated food/drink is always one down on taste/texture from the real thing.

[falcor84]

There's a bit of a circular argument here - even if we human always assign intrinsic value to ourselves and our kin, I don't see a clear argument that human capabilities will have external value to the economy at large.

[BurningFrog]

"The economy" is entirely driven by human needs.

If you "unwind" all the complexities in modern supply chains, there are always human people paying for something they want at the leaf nodes.

Take the food and clothing industries as obvious examples. In some AI singularity scenario where all humans are unemployed and dirt poor, does all the food and clothing produced by the automated factories just end up in big piles because we naked and starving people can't afford to buy them?

[AlexandrB]

"The economy" is humans spending money on stuff and services. So if humands always assign intrinsic value to ourselves and our kin...

[wincy]

Sounds like it’s time to become a Michelin Star chef. Or a plumber.

[sramam]

What fraction of the remaining population would be able to pay for these services?

[scottyah]

Seems like entertainers/influencers are doing the best.

[sodapopcan]

For those not living terminally online, yes.

[gdilla]

sex with humans - still hard to replicate. for now. sex workers should charge by the second since techbros are so used to that model now.