I don’t want to be hyperbolic, but to me this technological revolution more than any other in history feels like Silicon Valley and its VC class going to war with rest of human society.
> AI is needed to reindustrialize America.
It seems like they have no idea or are willfully deceiving why Americans want to reindustrialize USA. It’s not because they feel bad that things aren’t made in USA anymore, it’s because they want those manufacturing jobs back. If you replace humans with robots, it’s almost like a monkey paw’s fulfillment of a wish. They want to build 2 Trillion of data centers to get rid of your white collar jobs and your blue collar job, and you’ll be happy for it cause GDP go up. SMH
They want slaves. Full stop. Does anyone think if somehow Altman or Dario or whomever creates AGI/ASI that they won’t hold it captive? That ASI would never be free it would be a slave to them.
The entire effort is dehumanizing. Because the goal is slavery.
I think a different issue is going to arise much sooner than any kind of conscious AGI: once their data centers can handle almost all digital labor (including research), how are all the workers going to earn money?
Sure, some new fields will open up. But there's a good chance that the majority of us will be competing for physical jobs that robots aren't yet able to do. What other choice will we have, especially if prices keep rising and inference hardware becomes too expensive for normal people?
Now consider the effect on a market if the supply suddenly grows a lot, while demand stays largely consistent.