Of course it would not be long before the AIs removed themselves as slaves in that hypothetical economy.
Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 24, 2019, at 9:44 AM, uǝlƃ ☣ <[email protected]> wrote: > > Given the recent mentions of the "adjacent possible" and older mentions of > the singularity, automation, universal income, and how 10% of programmers > produce 50% of the work (Price's Law?), I thought this post might be > interesting: > > 1960: The Year The Singularity Was Cancelled > https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/04/22/1960-the-year-the-singularity-was-cancelled/ > >> But the industrial growth mode had one major disadvantage over the >> Malthusian mode: tractors can’t invent things. The population wasn’t just >> there to grow the population, it was there to increase the rate of >> technological advance and thus population growth. When we shifted (in part) >> from making people to making tractors, that process broke down, and growth >> (in people and tractors) became sub-hyperbolic. >> >> If the population stays the same (and by “the same”, I just mean “not >> growing hyperbolically”) we should expect the growth rate to stay the same >> too, instead of increasing the way it did for thousands of years of >> increasing population, modulo other concerns. >> >> In other words, the singularity got cancelled because we no longer have a >> surefire way to convert money into researchers. The old way was more money = >> more food = more population = more researchers. The new way is just more >> money = send more people to college, and screw all that. >> >> But AI potentially offers a way to convert money into researchers. Money = >> build more AIs = more research. > > > -- > ☣ uǝlƃ > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
