Needing us for production is at a decay rate and will soon plummet in 5-7 years to almost zero, for <60-70% of the population.
Production requires moving bits of matter from point A to point B on the surface of the earth.
Meat puppets will be an increasingly expensive, dirty, and dangerous way to do that.
Machines won’t need pay and sleep, they don’t get colds or produce methane, they don’t dream of “someday making it out of this hellhole,” they don’t form unions.
They will work way faster solo than any human and any machine/human hybrid.
I’m telling you what it feels like they WANT. Because it IS, deep down, what they want. I know this because it’s probably what I would want, deep down.
I wouldn’t have the heart to DO anything about it if I were them. But I’d probably prefer we’d just…disappear. 7 billion extra people means 7B people’s worth of somehow feeding them, giving them water and power. Meeting their demands for healthcare. Keeping them away from bombs or worse.
But deep down I’d see them as the walking dead. Because they will be left behind, left to fight for scraps, bitter and angry at the winners who live far away in unimaginable paradise. Terrified of a revolt.
They’ll want a clean planet, with far fewer smart apes on it. Sound familiar? This has been happening repeatedly throughout the ages. One minority group of outliers exceeds the majority in power and they go on a Darwinian campaign.
How many archer and fire apes does it take to wipe out the rest? A tiniest fraction. What do you think happened to the majority who didn’t do archery or fire? They were phased out.
They are gaming it out. Pay their mercenaries while money still means something. By the time they are done, it won’t.
First animals have equal status as humans. Then humans are a disease on the earth. And a short step: it (earth) can tolerate only 1/8th of us...
Call the neoliberal economic lie to the bar of public awareness: Class Action, public injuries suits, or whatever... human-rights-pro-bono lawyer movements, where are you?
I wouldn’t mind that either. But a “meaning” force, a massive amount of people with time to think and build, while removed from the addictive cycle of the high class, is a ticking time bomb if the goal is to foster and spread a sort of familial human family of earth instead of a class system designed to elevate only a few at the expense of the many. So there’s a natural tension where even though they can still be rich, just the idea of us going off grid and living a simple life is terrifying to them. That’s what I’m exploring in my next article “the meaning force” but it’s behind a paywall because it’s just a rough draft. I have it up there so I can audio screen it because that helps me write.
Scott, I await your high-priest response with bated breath. Sorry, late night. But yeah, we’re waiting. 👀 Cheer us up.
Needing us for production is at a decay rate and will soon plummet in 5-7 years to almost zero, for <60-70% of the population.
Production requires moving bits of matter from point A to point B on the surface of the earth.
Meat puppets will be an increasingly expensive, dirty, and dangerous way to do that.
Machines won’t need pay and sleep, they don’t get colds or produce methane, they don’t dream of “someday making it out of this hellhole,” they don’t form unions.
They will work way faster solo than any human and any machine/human hybrid.
I’m telling you what it feels like they WANT. Because it IS, deep down, what they want. I know this because it’s probably what I would want, deep down.
I wouldn’t have the heart to DO anything about it if I were them. But I’d probably prefer we’d just…disappear. 7 billion extra people means 7B people’s worth of somehow feeding them, giving them water and power. Meeting their demands for healthcare. Keeping them away from bombs or worse.
But deep down I’d see them as the walking dead. Because they will be left behind, left to fight for scraps, bitter and angry at the winners who live far away in unimaginable paradise. Terrified of a revolt.
They’ll want a clean planet, with far fewer smart apes on it. Sound familiar? This has been happening repeatedly throughout the ages. One minority group of outliers exceeds the majority in power and they go on a Darwinian campaign.
How many archer and fire apes does it take to wipe out the rest? A tiniest fraction. What do you think happened to the majority who didn’t do archery or fire? They were phased out.
They are gaming it out. Pay their mercenaries while money still means something. By the time they are done, it won’t.
First animals have equal status as humans. Then humans are a disease on the earth. And a short step: it (earth) can tolerate only 1/8th of us...
Call the neoliberal economic lie to the bar of public awareness: Class Action, public injuries suits, or whatever... human-rights-pro-bono lawyer movements, where are you?
I wouldn’t mind that either. But a “meaning” force, a massive amount of people with time to think and build, while removed from the addictive cycle of the high class, is a ticking time bomb if the goal is to foster and spread a sort of familial human family of earth instead of a class system designed to elevate only a few at the expense of the many. So there’s a natural tension where even though they can still be rich, just the idea of us going off grid and living a simple life is terrifying to them. That’s what I’m exploring in my next article “the meaning force” but it’s behind a paywall because it’s just a rough draft. I have it up there so I can audio screen it because that helps me write.
Help, apologies for being off topic: What weight AI based research carries in academia and politics?
Perplexity AI spills the beans on the big lye: https://www.perplexity.ai/search/what-could-a-jeff-bezos-or-a-b-7tSuUKBeT4uPGq23BlK.pg#0
Asked: "What Would a Jeff Bezos or a Bill Gates Achieve on a Deserted Island?"