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Re:Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter by jakeinspace on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @06:55PM (#35349246)
I’m not sure I’m looking forward to the politics that would come out of 10-20% of the previously middle class becoming instantly redundant and out of (middle-salary) work. That’s the fast path to fascism, unless we’re able to quickly implement UBI and other major societal overhauls.
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Re:Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter by m_ke on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @07:49PM (#35349826)
Yeah I share these concerns as well (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35305791).

My hope is that some countries will see this as an opportunity to expand their safety nets and reduce the work burden on their citizens, which might convince citizens of countries that don't to demand similar policies.

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Re:Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter by JohnFen on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @07:25PM (#35349546)
> unless we’re able to quickly implement UBI and other major societal overhauls.

Which are not going to happen.

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Re:Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter by jakeinspace on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @07:58PM (#35349920)
Something more approachable would be dropping payroll taxes to zero, or even making them negative for some positions, and significantly increasing corporate and capital gains.
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Re:Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter by mrguyorama on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @04:13PM (#35362776)
The problem isn't the specific policy, the problem is that right now the people who will be empowered and enriched the most by any theoretical "good at stuff" AI are the same people who already spend mountains of cash and effort stopping those things.

How will a functional AI model do anything other than make them better at getting the outcomes they want? CEOs and the megarich have never had any problems watching people burn for their bank account.

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Re:Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter by pineaux on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @07:07PM (#35349366)
This is isn't speculating, this is truthing.
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Re:Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter by paulryanrogers on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @08:00PM (#35349946)
Truthing as in theory quakery, not backed by evidence?
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Re:Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter by ngngngng on Thursday March 30, 2023 @12:16PM (#35375089)
How would we keep it as low as 10-20%? 60% of employees in the US are knowledge workers. That number is similar for most wealthy nations.
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