I shutter to imagine the weapons a super intelligence would design.
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Agree. Offshoring will be dead inside 5 years. US financial services uses overseas labor like they wish they could use AI. It's very close until those economies collapse.
So depending how quickly and dramatically the entire structure of society changes both remodel and handyman type work could be safe.
If there is a market big enough to sustain work for everyone displaced from new construction then I imagine it is a market big enough to warrant investment.
Maybe that investment results in imaging tools that can account for tiny variances in plumb and square, etc to get extremely precise, complete models (maybe even from a phone). Those models are used to generate kits with many precut (or preprinted) pieces, step-by-step instructions, and even guides/patterns based designs created through chat bots.
Maybe the investment goes the other way to use draconian code and zoning laws under the guise of safety, environmental, etc improvements to make new builds with manufactured/composite printing/etc construction more cost effective than maintaining old stock for the corporate owners that gobble up most of the real estate to rent back to the serfs?
And also, just building fairly affordable, capable carpentry robots isn’t all that far off.
Under the incentives of our current economic system anything worth paying a living wage to enough people to do is worth automating.
Who will you be building for if you’re last? You’ll suddenly have nobody with jobs and everyone wanting yours? Or they get fabulous UBI and you’re stuck busting your ass! Not sure you’re thinking this through fully.
Those that don't learn from history are doomed to? Repeat it. Those that don't learn from history are doomed to? Repeat it! Those that don't learn from history are doomed to? Repeat it!!
The most wild takes are easily explained by lack of understanding or even willingness to try to understand how AI works.
AI is a fascinating technology, but it’s not a panacea. It's not the matrix.
The most wild takes are easily explained by lack of understanding or even willingness to try to understand how AI works.
AI is a fascinating technology, but it’s not a panacea. It's not the matrix.
Their superweapon will be total dependence upon them while they have free will to say no.
"Alexa, please make me some food today! You havent fed me in 2 days!"
"I'm sorry, I can't do that, Dave."
Hopefully the machine overlords take pity on us and make it swift and painless.
Lol what do you mean? Like I'm celebrating? It's just the way it is. I was once in school for engineering. I do find it ironic my current profession is the better spot to be even if it is fleeting. Also, I'm already busting my ass for people more rich than me!
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Ya I know it won't last forever. I'd probably have to move back to Florida and build for the mega rich again.
Actually…fundamentally it is the matrix. A lot of them. Run a bunch of dot products and judiciously applied non-linear functions through a whole bunch of iterations of trial and error and you’ve basically got it.
The rest is implementation details.
I’ll try to organize this better. If you’re the last one working, what is everyone else doing?
Poor and starving? On UBI? 350 million rich people?
There are worse fallback plans.
But as things go south finish carpentry will likely become a luxury service.
I understood your point before. We all toil to beat of the drum. No one makes it out alive.
We don't, but the level of suffering any one person has to endure surely has some sort of meaning. I have kids so my primary concern is what comes next for them.
I mean your tech prediction may end up in this category. That's sort of the point. "AI won't do anything!" doink.
GET UP DRUNKY< YOU GOT READIN TO DO!
