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If AI keeps going the way the author thinks (which isnt guaranteed) then there will come a point where the productivity of those who can afford to have access to AI will start becoming infinitely more than those who do not, and then those without AI are locked in the permanent underclass. Not much is within your reach then
> My inability to produce food is economically almost irrelevant. What matters is that I can consume it, enjoy it, develop tastes for it, and devote my energies to other things.
What the author misses is that what mattered more was that people could now produce more things. People were free from manual labour to perform intellectual labour. But what do people do to produce things when intellectual labour is automated? And with emboddied AI, skilled manual labour too?
You need to produce things to be able to reap the fruits of economic progress. Thats what most working people did after the agricultural revolution. What will we produce in a post AI world? And if only the people who own AI will be able to produce things, then why would they give us any power or leverage in the economy?
I expect a huge market correction, alot of parades rained on, and then the start of some very pragmatic and practical applications of LLMs
Basically this will only prove mass surveillance effective to people who think only guilty people pleade the 5th
Thatd be nice yeah
Also the people who would use R and who would use excel are completely different. They use both for the same thing but a user of one would rarely use the other
The US and europe would be stronger together if the US acted in good faith. Absent that, decoupling is the right choice