Under certain dogmatic economic assumptions. I'm fucking sick of TINA.
> What you can do is make sure the datacenters being built in your area benefit the area, otherwise they can go find somewhere else. If some other sucker state/county takes a one-sided deal, unfortunate but it's on them. Just don't be unreasonable and turn down actually beneficial offers.
The end state of capitalist AGI logic is to make nearly all existing people and their descendants obsolete, disempowered, and marginalized. We need to stop that change. It's perfectly reasonable to turn down an offer that throws you a couple bones to bait you and your kind down a road to an eventual bad outcome. And ultimately what needs to happen is some power (the government) needs to beat these companies and their leaders into submission and probably implement more fundamental economic and social change on their backs.
Take action early, when you still have power to, instead of the last minute when you're bound and gagged, just before you're led off the edge of a cliff.
The alternative is eventually having either yourself or your kids reduced to the level of pets. Sure, pets (often) get fed and lead easy lives, but they're almost totally deprived of agency. Do you want to be a pet? Would you even accept a nonzero chance of becoming a pet?
I believe you could not be more correct but it seems extremely difficult to get people to take any meaningful action, or even talk about this openly
I have stopped even saying anything like this aloud to people because the reaction I get is anywhere from "it won't be that bad you're exaggerating" to "you're a conspiracy theorist nutjob"
I'd argue, the biggest problem with AI is that it makes totalitarianism a lot more attractive, because it is an infinitely big state that controls all resources: so if AI becomes everything and deprives people of agency, it's no problem: government marshals all resources anyway and people have no agency even without AI if country is totalitarian - but it can also make quick decisions with no political bullshit.