Comment by DiscourseFan 2 days ago
That's how it tends to go, automation removes some parts of the work but creates more complexity. Sooner or later that will also be automated away, and so on and so forth. AGI evangelists ought to read Marx's Capital.
Marxists have the tendency to think that the Venn diagram of "people who have read and understand Marx" and "Marxists" is a circle. There are plenty of AGI evangelists who are smart enough to read Marx, and many of them probably have. The problem is that, being technolibertarians and that, they think Marx is the enemy.
That seems patently absurd, considering that the debate is not between marxists and non-marxists but accelerationists and orthodox marxists, who are both readers of marx, its just that the former is in alignment with technolibertarianism.
Hi. I am not an evangelist -- I'm quite certain it's going to kill us all! But I would like to think that I'm about the closest thing to an AI booster you might find here, given that I get so much damn utility out of it. I'm interested in reading, I probably read too much! would you like to suggest a book we can discuss next week? I'd be happy to do this with you.
If you're "quite certain it's going to kill us all", then you are extremely foolish to not be opposing it. Do you think there's some kind of fatalistic inevitability? If so… why? Conjectures about the inevitable behaviour of AI systems only apply once the AI systems exist.
I seriously doubt that there is even one "AGI evangelist" who has the intellectual capacity to read books written for adult audiences.