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Re:OnlyFans Models Are Using AI Impersonators to Keep Up wit... by ethbr1 on Thursday December 12, 2024 @04:00PM (#42403275)
Basic income + population control?

At some point we should get past make-work that creates horrible lives for people, when we have the capability to automate that work.

Not automating something so that someone will have a job is bad reasoning and traps society in a local rut.

Re:OnlyFans Models Are Using AI Impersonators to Keep Up wit... by account42 on Monday December 16, 2024 @07:52AM (#42430540)
> population control

Which population?

The situation in most well off countries is already that native populations have fallen below replacement rates. The result has not been to rejoice in the would-be crisis being averted but instead the crisis has been inverted and now those countries "need" to import foreigners to keep their economies from imploding. Or are you suggesting population control for africa and the middle east? Because I'm not sure they'll agree.

I agree that society needs to adapt to the post-scarcity reality but "population control" is and will always be something dystopian. It's also irrelevant because the more we automate the less people we actually "need" so no amount of population control will ever solve the underlying issue.