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Re:Ethics, Politics, and Society in the Age of Artificial In... by gensym on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @06:31PM (#35532528)
In the land/labor/capital triad, the only thing that will be post-scarcity due to AI will be labor. Anyone who lacks one of the others will be screwed since the only they have to trade - their labor - will be worthless.
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Re:Ethics, Politics, and Society in the Age of Artificial In... by SoftTalker on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @06:42PM (#35532647)
If nobody can buy your land or trade your capital, what do you really have? We need the value produced by labor for there to be a market for anything else.
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Re:Ethics, Politics, and Society in the Age of Artificial In... by mcaledonensis on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @12:18AM (#35534963)
If you are a citizen and of age, you have your voting rights.
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Re:Ethics, Politics, and Society in the Age of Artificial In... by chii on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @01:01AM (#35535214)
the labour being replaced by autonomous robots driven by an AI means that the output is cheap, and plentiful.

But this requires initial capital to get going, and that capital (and land) is what gets traded. At some point, when capital is no longer required, then it would become worthless, but by then i think humanity would've reached star trek level of post-scarcity (or killed themselves with a war).

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Re:Ethics, Politics, and Society in the Age of Artificial In... by mcaledonensis on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @12:17AM (#35534959)
It is not impossible to setup taxation and public/private ownership of AI in a way that is beneficial to humanity.
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Re:Ethics, Politics, and Society in the Age of Artificial In... by blooalien on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @12:46AM (#35535126)
It's not impossible, but it is highly unlikely to happen that way… There's a certain group of humans that are determined to hoard all that they can, and they don't want to share.
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Re:Ethics, Politics, and Society in the Age of Artificial In... by mcaledonensis on Thursday April 13, 2023 @01:49AM (#35551518)
Education is probably an answer to this. And citizens do have some influence. Vote for one candidate:

  [ ] Trump Putin Musk
  [ ] Biden Zelensky Altman
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Re:Ethics, Politics, and Society in the Age of Artificial In... by rnd0 on Thursday April 13, 2023 @04:45AM (#35552686)
Citizens negligible influence which is dwindling every day.
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