> So what comes next?
When you don’t need as many people because of automation, you also don’t need them to fight your wars. You use drones and other automated weapons. You don’t need things like democracy because that was to prevent people from turning to revolution, and that problem has been solved with automated weapons. So then you don’t really need as many people anymore, so you stop providing the expensive healthcare, food production, and water to keep them all alive
Yeah this is what we are seeing today, also its not just junior jobs going, according to Amazon they are using it to get rid of expensive senior employees while they are actually holding onto juniors using ai tools.
We have seen a lot of use of h1b and outsourcing despite the massive job shortage. Seeing lots of fake job sites filled with ai generated fake openings and paid membership for access to "premium jobs."
They're using ICE to effectively pay half the country to murder the other half, but the ICE budget is limited so that automated systems can then gun down the ICE community to replace 99.9% of humans with machines.
Ultimately this is great for Russia because they'll still be able to invade even if they have only 300 soldiers left in their military, after they hit a low orbit nuke blast to shutdown the Ai US, basically only Melania swinging her purse at the troops will be one of the few left alive to resist.
> Ultimately this is great for Russia
Wat
Dark. But I can't think of a way to rebuke it…
There's likely a slippery slope fallacy in there somewhere (I hope). If interested in the (not so) sci-fi aspects of automated weapons and their ramifications, I often plug Daniel Suarez's great Kill Decision talk and book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMYYx_im5QI
Its deterministic and assumes that those in power are one uniform force. Its still possible to push for a different future.
> When you don’t need as many people because of automation
You want to sell your stuff to someone, tho. So, unless you find a way to automate consumption as well, you do need people and lots of it.
This works even better with a declining fertility rate!
The current wave of automation (LLMs) aren't capable of "fighting your wars".
Ukraine and russia are already employing low-cost recon and hunter-killer drones
israel is already using sniper drones in Palestine that use AI to fly around and headshot whatever moves, as well as AI to select their bombing targets.
the future is now, isn't it exciting?
Why does Mr Beast dig wells in Africa?
To launder his reputation? To distract that the source of his wealth is selling gambling and sugar to children? To feel better about himself?
palantir and anduril :))