A.R. Moxon, Verified Duck 🦆May 28
Pretty wild to be living in a time when humans are being forced to work in order to even be considered deserving of life or even to be considered human at all, while simultaneously human labor is being systematically eliminated from the concept of work.
Show threadMartijn VosMay 28

@JuliusGoat

Yeah, we really need to change our economic system. At the very least, give everybody a liveable basic income. Better would be to ensure the productivity of AI benefits everybody instead of just the owners.

Show threadJaponica
@mcv @JuliusGoat this seems very far removed from the whole purpose of AI. It's designed to do the opposite of what you hope for. It is designed wholly to generate profit for the fascists, and to secure their power. It doesn't exist without them.
May 28 at 8:05pmWeb
Show threadMartijn VosMay 28

@japonica

That depends entirely on who you ask. Entire generations of SciFi writers completely disagree, and think AI should take over our work so we don't have to work anymore, and can enjoy the fruits of the robots' labour while we make art and play games.

And that's certainly how I think AI should be used. It's the only way it can be used once it starts taking over people's work. It's that or revolution.

Show threadJaponicaMay 28

@mcv I'm not asking previous generations of sci fi writers , I'm just looking out at the world we have, here, now.

I don't see the billionaires granting people 3 day weeks on 5 days pay. I see them driving us beyond the climate event horizon in a rush to control and own the most and treating people as fodder.

Show threadMartijn VosMay 29

@japonica

And that's the thing that needs to change, not get accepted as normal.