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Re:Goldman Sachs says the return on investment for AI might ... by ben_w on Sunday June 30, 2024 @02:12PM (#40838847)
Utopia has many meanings, and some of them are impossible to achieve for all of us because some of us are unhappy unless we have more than others.

But there's sufficient resources on this world to give ten billion people each their own luxury yacht with a crew of servant robots, and there are people who would gladly use their own wealth to make others better off.

It's going to be a wild ride, no matter what human psychology drives us to do with this future.

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Re:Goldman Sachs says the return on investment for AI might ... by bamboozled on Sunday June 30, 2024 @05:37PM (#40840585)
Sorry where do we anchor 10 billion super yachts?
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Re:Goldman Sachs says the return on investment for AI might ... by ben_w on Monday July 01, 2024 @02:11AM (#40843025)
The thing about yachts is, they go on water, and there's a lot of that on this planet. More water than land.
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Re:Goldman Sachs says the return on investment for AI might ... by gmd63 on Monday July 01, 2024 @04:54PM (#40850554)
There are sufficient resources to feed everyone on the planet currently, yet we don't. A future where everyone owns their own yacht and robot fleet is completely out of the bounds of realistic expectation.
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Re:Goldman Sachs says the return on investment for AI might ... by ben_w on Tuesday July 02, 2024 @02:00AM (#40853909)
Robots can (and already partially do) make more robots.

When the AI is good enough for them to genuinely replace all human labour, it's good enough for them to be von Neumann replicators; at that point equality is more about human psychology — greed vs charity — than practicalities.

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