i don’t think you’re supposed to read this if you don’t have “e/acc” in your twitter bio
> Historical precedent: child labor
amazing start. crushing it already
> Consider Qatar as a point of comparison. Migrant workers make up roughly 94% of the country’s workforce, yet only Qatari citizens, who make up the remaining 6%, are eligible to receive most government welfare benefits. As a result, Qatari citizens enjoy remarkable prosperity, with minimum pensions valued at over $5,700 per month and an early retirement age of 50.
consider: the upsides of doing slavery. a libertarian utopia of remarkable prosperity
> Future humans might gain entirely new senses, develop completely new ways to communicate, and expand our minds beyond recognition. From our present vantage point, we may become gods.
this is actually ripped directly from the closing paragraph of Don’t Create The Torment Nexus
I think the idea is that once we have AI that can use AI to help AI build AI we're so wealthy that we can afford to live lives of leisure. Naturally in that scenario shortly thereafter everyone dies, but we don't talk about that part.
Which isn't even true. We aren't all wealthy, those people who own the compute for the AI become wealthy. The rest of us, whose only value was labour, stop having value.
Yeah I also thought these comparisons were a bit odd/off-putting. But I guess they must have thought that transmogrifying from slave to AI worker would strip away the stigma? Not sure if..
> Historical precedent: child labor
amazing start. crushing it already
> Consider Qatar as a point of comparison. Migrant workers make up roughly 94% of the country’s workforce, yet only Qatari citizens, who make up the remaining 6%, are eligible to receive most government welfare benefits. As a result, Qatari citizens enjoy remarkable prosperity, with minimum pensions valued at over $5,700 per month and an early retirement age of 50.
consider: the upsides of doing slavery. a libertarian utopia of remarkable prosperity
> Future humans might gain entirely new senses, develop completely new ways to communicate, and expand our minds beyond recognition. From our present vantage point, we may become gods.
this is actually ripped directly from the closing paragraph of Don’t Create The Torment Nexus