Re:Geoffrey Hinton: it might turn out we were better off wit...
by aatd86 on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @08:53AM
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Which job are worth doing and which ones you'd rather the AI do?
AI should enable things that were previously impossible because of time constraints.
If time is money and we were previously trading with money, we will get back to trading time. Manufacturing time for instance. Compute times.
For commodities, that might be automated to some extent, I am not sure. The friction in exchanges is where the money is made and the friction here may be at the interface with the real world still.
Re:Geoffrey Hinton: it might turn out we were better off wit...
by hardbass on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @02:54PM
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At some stage we might need to decouple income from traditional jobs. Bringing gladiatorial combat would be helpful. People can't stand a life of comfort. It will both probably become attractive to watch and a source of living for all, and it will solve the devils that emerge in idle heads. I am not joking, just look at the state of the Western world just from some basic material comforts having been fulfilled for a few decades.
That doesn't mean that everyone has to use to use it.
We're only starting to see the beginning of the negative impact of AI to the job market and society. If if turns out that allowing most jobs to be replaced by AI is bad for society and the economy (super high unemployment - nobody buying more then necessities), then wouldn't it be smarter to not do that?
If that's the case, then each country can decide for themselves.
Dario's "Machines of loving grace" UBI/foodstamp "utopia" sure doesn't sound like a recipe for success.