As I'm retired from technological development and science, I spend a lot
of my time interpreting and explaining science to interested laymen.
With the AI revolution I foresee a bigger role for this. Human
scientists will be those who study what AI's have done and then explain
it to the rest of us; instead of finding out what Nature has done and
explaining it.
Brent
On 10/19/2024 6:24 AM, John Clark wrote:
5. Work and meaning
Even if everything in the preceding four sections goes well at least
one important question still remains._With AI’s doing everything, how
will humans have meaning?_ For that matter, how will they survive
economically?” I think it is very likely a mistake to believe that
tasks you undertake are meaningless simply because an AI could do them
better. Most people are not the best in the world at anything, and I
spend plenty of time playing video games, swimming, walking around
outside, and talking to friends, all of which generates zero economic
value. I might spend a day trying to get better at a video game, or
faster at biking up a mountain, and it doesn’t really matter to me
that someone somewhere is much better at those things.
The fact is that civilization has successfully navigated major
economic shifts in the past: from hunter-gathering to farming, farming
to feudalism, and feudalism to industrialism. I suspect that some new
andstrangerthing will be needed, and that it’s something no one today
has done a good job of envisioning. _It could be as simple as a large
universal basic income for everyone._
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