What do we do with ourselves given accelerating AI?
Sometimes, it's hard not to feel mild existential crises with the rate AI is improving.
What's the point if AI will eventually be able to do everything a human can but better? How do you think yourself out of this? Like what is the 'correct' thing to work on.
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Yes, we will need universal basic income soon because human brains cannot retrain themselves fast enough to work in new fields. It takes years to retrain and get good at a career, sometimes more, and sometimes impossible.
Universal basic income will provide people with money. But it won't give people enough money to or incentive to have babies. Thus, human population will decrease. Actually, the poor population will decrease. But the elites will increase in population because they have more than universal basic income.
However, Arts and Crafts pieces were so expensive that only the well off could afford them. The market for such work was small and didn't support that many craftsmen. It would be worthwhile to thoughtfully read some of the history of the movement because the analogy is quite deep. Successful application of the analogy, however, would not be straight forward.