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Future_Believer t1_iy6yh94 wrote

First off, there is not actually any thing you can point to and say, "son,that there is the gub'mint". There are of course, around the world, millions of humans who participate in whatever scheme of governance the locals will accept. As such, your opening TL:DR question could be quite reasonably asked of people. I know it sounds like I am just being pedantic but it is relevant to the way one thinks about these things. It is people that will have to adapt to the development and deployment of Manufactured Intelligence.

Unemployment is coming for everyone. IMNSHO that is a good thing. However, humanity has a long history of increasing the population as a source of workers. Once a given culture surpasses the need for additional workers, it usually results in some manipulative powerhungry ass figuring out a way to make money from keeping the poor people having children.

The economy is what those manipulative powerhungry asses are trying to control. But the truth is once robots and computers are doing all of the energy generation, energy distribution, research, farming, manufacturing etc etc, there is no NEED for an economy. There will be no good reason for anything to cost anything. It may take a while but eventually this will be obvious to anyone wiling to think about it.

The societal issues you mention suggest to me that you are not thinking about the Intelligence in charge as being intelligent. Also, theft becomes ever more rare as we get closer to the economy I suggest we are inevitably heading for. (unless we destroy humanity first but, that will eliminate theft as well.)

Right now we need to figure out a way to describe the coming future in such a way that is not only not scary to the hoi polloi but is actually desirable. Unfortunately, I have no real ideas to offer on that.

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InvisibleWrestler t1_iyavr0w wrote

I have no understanding of economics. I've limited understanding of ownership of resources. People who already own infrastructure and land etc will continue to charge money for its use. I'm probably wrong or confused coz I don't understand how value generation truly works.

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Future_Believer t1_iyberxj wrote

I don't think you have a significant lack of understanding. If you lack anything it is the ability to consider those things in a different context, i.e. the context of the probable future.

Of course, there is a very good chance that the future will be something other that what I or Roddenberry or Kurtzweil envision. If the Manufactured Intelligence my prognostications are predicated upon fails to be brought into existence, I will be laughably wrong. OTOH if a couple of things happen more aggressively than my intentionally conservative guesstimates, I will be laughably wrong in the other direction.

I did not predict the advent and take up of mobile phones/computers. The world wide web was a bit of a surprise to me. Hell, I thought few people needed or would spring for a color monitor. I'm guessing. I hope it turns out to be an educated guess I can't advise betting your lunch money on what I think is coming.

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