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Butlerian Jihad when?
More like Elysium...
Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism when ??
Elon Musk predicted that AI and robots would eventually allow work to become optional for human beings, that money would become “irrelevant” and poverty would cease to exist.
I mean first off, we'll need "AI" to actually mean something other than marketing bullshit. Actual AI (what's being called 'AGI' nowadays, but that'll be bastardized the same way 'AI' was) doesn't exist outside of science fiction. If that day ever comes (my money's on humans being extinct before we get there), then yeah that's gonna be a humanity changer in par with discovering fire or electricity.
Second, we'll need the folks who run that tech to actually be benevolent, and the odds of a billionaire becoming benevolent are even lower than real AI becoming a reality.
Third, poverty could cease to exist RIGHT NOW if people like Elon Musk got the guillotine treatment they deserve. No AI necessary.
Third, poverty could cease to exist RIGHT NOW if people like Elon Musk got the guillotine treatment they deserve
Never forget that elmo ran his mouth about using his money to solve world hunger, and when the UN organization in charge of hunger came back with a detailed plan... nothing. Poof. The little shit tucked tail and ran.
My concept of utopia is a world without billionaires
I hate the loser as much as the next guy, but post scarcity built on automation and androids isn't a bad thing just because he mentions it.
It absolutely is a bad thing. There's a version of "post scarcity" where everyone is provided for and cared for, and there's the one these assholes are aiming for, where most are left to languish. His is unquestionably the latter.
Languish is a strong word, post scarcity heavily implies most of our desires being met, not a minimum to survive.
It should still be the end goal in either case. Hopefully, we can have proper change before it to avoid some kind of techno feudalism.
My point is that what he's aiming for isn't what you're imagining or describing. He doesn't want comfort or care for others, he wants to have as much money and power as he can possible claw in, and others having something means he has less to hoard.
In short, he's lying and it's important to understand that.
Hopefully we can have change so we get what he predicts and not what he wants.
If done right and well, it most certainly could. But we aren't doing either.
It's the old tech shill's shell game.
"This is what we could have!" (Note: could have. Not what they're working toward.)
Television was once hailed as a boon for education. How long did that last?
The Internet was once hailed as a means of learning about each other. Now it's a source of ever-increasing vociferous division.
All of this is purest fantasy because the people pitching it are shit humans who don't want the future they sell to us.
In the heart of the empire, same as it ever was. I mbin "boosted" your comment, because it's the same old pipe dream they've always sold us that we keep buying, with just enough "good" hits to keep us coming back, as I elsewhere.
None of our billionaires are seeking a Star Trek, united federation of planets (countries) utopia, where money is obsolete.
They’re all looking more towards the empire dystopia of Star Wars.
If only someone had a trillion dollars they could donate to fix that
They have been selling us the promise of leisurely utopia since the industrial revolution. The only way we get shorter work weeks is by sacrificing capitalists
Does that mean healthcare, housing and nutrition will all become basic human rights as well?
Elon, you have the capacity to end world hunger, fix all American schooling problems, and dozens of other things, and still be a billionaire. If you were capable of even the slightest hint of empathy, you could create a near-utopia tomorrow.
Can we please stop paying attention to what this Nazi saluting man baby is saying?
So you want a world without money Felon? Ok, start handing it out.
People like this are described by Charles Dickens ..... rich, wealthy, entitled aholes that talk about "The surplus population"
Come on show us the self driving car elon!
Oh, man I remember being baked as fuck. Sure.