When someone tells you that AGI is inevitable and the permanent economic displacement of most humans is a foregone conclusion, what they're really telling you is that they believe the current leaders of the AI industry will execute flawlessly, indefinitely, against challenges they can't yet foresee, in an environment that's changing faster than perhaps any in history.

This seems unlikely.

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-empire-always-falls/

The empire always falls

A citizen of Rome in 117 AD, under Emperor Trajan, would've found it difficult to imagine the empire not existing. The roads, the aqueducts, the legal system, the trade networks stretching from Britain to Mesopotamia: all of it seemed to be a near-fact of nature, like gravity // the Mediterranean itself.

Westenberg.

@Daojoan

Every fascist thinks their grift will last forever.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Germany

They sow the seeds of their own self-destruction almost immediately.

The supposedly "thousand year Reich" lasted 12 years.

The Nerd Reich is unlikely to last even that long.

Why? Because the Big Oil money laundering that is keeping the bubble inflated will dry up eventually.

Nazi Germany - Wikipedia

@Npars01 @Daojoan It only ends when millions of people resist together and put their very lives on the line in order to stop it!