Wow, I'm not particularly optimist about our future. But compared to your vision of the world, I seriously need to take off my rose-tinted glass. We can be quite sure that the vast majority of Americans have no clue about this. When this happens, it will look like apocalypse.
This is a companion to your detailed piece that's about what happens to humanity. This is what's going on with AI. These are for all of us to wise up about, where bottom line is we are served best by preparation. That said, this is scary: https://shumer.dev/something-big-is-happening
Mass starvation, contagion? Mass civil violence and revolts? Sounds a lot like Project 2025, doesn't it? Plenty of weapons and people who know how to use them in this country. Will they be turned on the putative overlords?
I live off the grid meaning having my own electricity and internet not depending on the job. I saw this coming way before AI in 2018. And decided being self-sufficent is the way to go.
I am hoping they will see us as being necessary as consumers. What good is it to make stuff, or provide service, if there are no consumers to consume the output of industries?
I just wonder how far down the slide we'll be as a society before they realize they've pulled the plug and the music is stopping.
But it won't happen all over all at once. Consider undeveloped or underdeveloped nations or regions. The places and people who haven't advanced far through the continum from hunting and gathering, to agriculture, to manual manufacturing, to industry, to thought work, to financial manipulation won't suffer the same fate as fast as advanced countries that think and plan in great cities while importing the fruits of lesser laborers.
Consider a happy but "primitive" society that is mostly self-sustaining vs a "modern" society whose bankers, lawyers, planners, and managers no longer have a place in the "advanced" economy. Advantage North Korea maybe?
This made me want a bottle of bourbon, pronto, even though I’m looking out over a quiet harbor in Uruguay right now. Cheers! 🥃
Wow, I'm not particularly optimist about our future. But compared to your vision of the world, I seriously need to take off my rose-tinted glass. We can be quite sure that the vast majority of Americans have no clue about this. When this happens, it will look like apocalypse.
This is a companion to your detailed piece that's about what happens to humanity. This is what's going on with AI. These are for all of us to wise up about, where bottom line is we are served best by preparation. That said, this is scary: https://shumer.dev/something-big-is-happening
Mass starvation, contagion? Mass civil violence and revolts? Sounds a lot like Project 2025, doesn't it? Plenty of weapons and people who know how to use them in this country. Will they be turned on the putative overlords?
I need more 🍺.
First and foremost is the question if the AI companies have figured out how to make people pay for it.
I live off the grid meaning having my own electricity and internet not depending on the job. I saw this coming way before AI in 2018. And decided being self-sufficent is the way to go.
I am hoping they will see us as being necessary as consumers. What good is it to make stuff, or provide service, if there are no consumers to consume the output of industries?
I just wonder how far down the slide we'll be as a society before they realize they've pulled the plug and the music is stopping.
But it won't happen all over all at once. Consider undeveloped or underdeveloped nations or regions. The places and people who haven't advanced far through the continum from hunting and gathering, to agriculture, to manual manufacturing, to industry, to thought work, to financial manipulation won't suffer the same fate as fast as advanced countries that think and plan in great cities while importing the fruits of lesser laborers.
Consider a happy but "primitive" society that is mostly self-sustaining vs a "modern" society whose bankers, lawyers, planners, and managers no longer have a place in the "advanced" economy. Advantage North Korea maybe?
This all assumes AI will work as advertised. Which it probably won't.
Why can't we just transition to a less job-dependent economy?