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Wroisu t1_j6nvoya wrote

Reply to comment by beachinit23 in How does society benefit from AGI? by beachinit23

Read the culture by Ian m banks, specifically “Look to Windward” or “Surface Detail”… now, back in reality, how will society benefit from AGI? Eventually, the hope is that it will be able to do any human labor - freeing humans up to do whatever we like.

Besides automating jobs, having the ability to reason through mountains of data that would take humans centuries or millennia to reason through. This alone will help us advance much quicker in all fields, things like nuclear fusion, protein folding, agriculture etc.

AI is only doom and gloom under capitalism, really.

This video covers most talking points:

https://youtu.be/8nt3edWLgIg

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CertainMiddle2382 t1_j6o79wf wrote

Irony it that it can only be created under capitalism also :-)

I love Banks books. The Culture represents the most realistic vision of Heaven in my opinion.

The only possibility it could happen makes the risks of AGI and singularity acceptable, IMO.

The worst is we could get killed by our newborn God, pretty classy isn’t lol?

Deep down it is the humanist version of Pascal’s wager:

It is unreasonable to not try achieving the Singularity as soon as possible, if it could have even the slightest chance of being good.

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dasnihil t1_j6o5mzd wrote

nobody is pointing out the direct benefit to humanity yet, and only focusing on nuclear fusion and all.

the wishful thinking is that once we have nuclear fusion, energy gets dirt cheap. how long will it take for the rich to let it go and not make citizens pay for basic things like food, water, electricity, HOUSE to live in and so on.

i hope that will take shorter time for them to work towards that future where basic requirements for living is provideD, including emotional support of whatever form.

look at it this way, we were primates once, we didn't care about art, emotions, sentiments and attachments in today's form. our consciousness has trancended the regulatory needs of a primate hardware and is now trying to engineer a society where everything needed for the primate hardware will be provided and we only get to sink in our conscious experience. i mean i love fucking but many more things too.

we got out of food chain, meaning none of us have to hunt for food now or fear death while at it. the moment we got out of food chain, our road till now has been how to provide for basic necessities with least suffering. we just have to keep continuing and faster. suffering is no good.

i'm balls high right now.

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