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Like the whole world economy's foundation is the belief in AGI.
Happen or not, but if it does not happen, this whole thing would be very funny and painful in retrospective
The moment AGI is achieved it’s going to be a glorious destruction of society. Companies will lay off people and replace them with AGI and completely ignore the fact that no one will have money to buy anything. What we’re seeing now is just a fractional microcosm of what will happen.
Honestly I think that's the goal..
They only kept us around as long as they did bc they needed labor. Once they can actually replace everybody with bots why would they need to worry about an economy for anybody but themselves?
Specifically, if ultra affordable AGI that also happens to be acceptably reliable.
Which is certainly a pipe dream, today. It might or might not ever get any more possible.
To be economically viable, AGI needs to cost less than the people it supposedly replaces. Sure, we can all think of a couple of over-priced Word document slingers.
But ask someone who wanted to buy a conveyor belt or a barcode scanner for a factory in an emerging market...until the technology costs dramatically less than local seasoned professionals, the technology just doesn't get bought.
Now, I do imagine there's a few specific use cases that billionaires are very interested in replacing humans - because humans as morally empty and worthless as Epstein and Thompson (rest in piss) may actually be hard to find.
Still it is very dangerous. You need to engineer war or something like that in order to guarantee the safety.
It is highly unlikely that amazon drones will be repurposed to kill all humans or guard data centers.