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ethbr1 | on: Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs
If humans could politically-economically deploy superintelligence safely, then we'd already have less extreme pain/suffering.

Unless there are countervailing forces, it will be deployed, capital will hoard the benefits, and everyone else will be told to fuck off.

I don't have faith in any of the AI labs to make hard financial decisions to deploy hypothetical future AGI in a way that's good for humanity as a whole.

There are too many incentives against, including extreme personal financial incentives for key AI lab stakeholders against.

And if we should take anything from tech history, it's that an exceedingly small number of people look fuck-you money in the face and say "Naw, I'd rather do what I believe in."

solenoid0937 | parent
Capital hoards benefits because resource scarcity and cost of production are a thing

Post scarcity societies would likely have entirely different dynamics

ethbr1 | root | parent | next
Transitioning to a post scarcity society requires broad, accessible dissemination of post scarcity production methods.

What was the first thing we did when we digitized media and therefore made it copyable at negligible per unit cost?

Spent a huge amount of time and money to artificially reimplement scarcity via DRM.

Scarcity-based capital interests (read: most) are not going to willingly give up their profit engines.

a2ff6eeb0 | root | parent
We're already physically running out of materials to cheaply build infrastructure. I'm not sure how solving the economy needing humans translates to humans having more things -- short of "turning off" the consumers to conserve resources, and taking the things that they may have otherwise consumed.