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He is predicting a future that I foresaw several years ago.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/26/bill-gates-on-ai-h...Not that Bill Gates is infallible (e.g. "nobody needs more than 640K of RAM"). He may even be off on his timing (10 years). But I think he is correct that at some point, likely within my lifetime, people won't be needed for many/most things.
I think Andrew Yang just ran for office a few cycles too early. His MBI is going to be mandatory, otherwise people won't have enough income to eat. Which leads to riots, anarchy, revolution...a mess.
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He is predicting a future that I foresaw several years ago.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/26/bill-gates-on-ai-h...
Not that Bill Gates is infallible (e.g. "nobody needs more than 640K of RAM"). He may even be off on his timing (10 years). But I think he is correct that at some point, likely within my lifetime, people won't be needed for many/most things.
I think Andrew Yang just ran for office a few cycles too early. His MBI is going to be mandatory, otherwise people won't have enough income to eat. Which leads to riots, anarchy, revolution...a mess. I've been seeing this since The Jetsons. Heard it all the time as a kid.
"Someday people will live lives of luxury, work 5 hours a week, and retire at 30." Finally, real progress!
I thought: So how will most people manage to earn a living....? If all we do is concentrate all the wealth in fewer and fewer hands we aren't making any progress.
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He is predicting a future that I foresaw several years ago.
Sci Fi did this long ago.
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Sci Fi did this long ago.
Sort of. I can't recall one that predicts people being replaced by robots, and then there is massive poverty and riots. Usually it is utopian (i.e. people living in luxury), and then the robots/AI go bad in some manner. But maybe I didn't see/read whatever you're thinking of (or maybe I just forgot...I do that a lot).
Up until now, automation has largely been a positive. It makes people more efficient, and -so far- new jobs are created at least as fast as old jobs are obsoleted. With AI, that probably won't happen. Not that it will replace everything. I suspect it will provide augmentation such that one person could do the work that was done by 5 or more, including doctors and lawyers and engineers (which have largely been spared from job loss as technology has advanced).
Most sci-fi I'm familiar with have future automation, but usually there is the haves and have-nots, and the dystopia springs from that societal inequity. Sometimes exacerbated by overpopulation (e.g. Soylent Green).
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Sort of. I can't recall one that predicts people being replaced by robots, and then there is massive poverty and riots.
SNIP The first work of science fiction that explicitly presents (and names) the robot apocalypse is Karel Čapek's 1920 tale “Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti” (Rossum's Universal Robots). In this story, the universal robots rebel against their human enslavers, exterminating and replacing humanity.
Me: I haven't read it, but it's showed up in places reviewing Sci Fi. It surprised me too.
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We're headed long term into what Liberals *and* some in the Republican NeoCon ruling class want.
15% of the people living better than they did ever, and in charge of everything.
The other 85% can line up, behave as their told, reproduce as they are told or not told, accept certain beliefs, and get their government check and live on pot, virtual reality, and literal preschool for adults. '
If not, they can have Hunger Games.
Life has been good, I have everything to be thankful for.
I usually made the right calls.
Having kids in this culture and world? Ugh I am guilty of that.
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Why do you say liberals want this? It's the progressives that are suggesting MBIs. Not conservatives. Conservatives tend to be "tough noogies if you can't pull yourself up by your bootstraps".
