Re:Grok3 Launch
by conartist6 on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @08:06AM
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Yeah at some point it seems inevitable that if machines do all the work that creates real "value" and people have no comparable value, in a very practical sense we will all be slaves to machines
Like in Dune, we won't be slaves to the machines, but to the people owning the machines.
"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." -- Frank Herbert, _Dune_
Are we free today? For example, I have to work for a living. If I don't, my family and I will be miserable. Let's just hope that future "men with machines" don't decide to kill the rest of us - I'm not sure what use we will be to them.
Your choice is corporations, government, or billionaires. One of those is going to be the "men with machines" that has use for the rest of us.
I think this is the key change. We’re already beholden to a “machine” (the economy) that none of us completely understand or control or created explicitly. It has its own goals and tendencies that emerged from the complexity.
What AI and robotics does is actually create a machine that has no use for humans at all. Ñ
> Sounds incredibly valuable, but in reality collapses into Butlerian Jihad fairly quickly when you have 90% unemployment.
But nobody really knows if that happens or not as a consequence, let alone quickly, because the transition itself only happened at all so far in fiction.
Whatever does happen, I think it's going to be a surprise to at a minimum 80% of the population.
Sounds incredibly valuable, but in reality collapses into Butlerian Jihad fairly quickly when you have 90% unemployment.
Edit: if the claims are true, then this will be far more destabilizing than social media. What do elections mean when the AI-guided political parties are putting out AI press releases for the AI press summaries, which voters have read out to them through their AI? What happens when >50% of the voters ask the AI who they should vote for? You end up with an AI dictatorship where the levers of discontent are fake.