You are definitely onto something, and it resonates with the political divide between "left and right". I think it has to do with whether we care about the existence of all the people, or only some of the people. That was going to be the topic of my dissertation, but it was TOO BIG. But I'm working on a short piece that addresses the essentials. People get all worried about the meaning of "care about" which is why I usually add in the word "existence" so it's a minimum obligation, even though I fervently believe we should have a universal basic income. But, baby steps.
AI can't yet replace everything, so they still need effective slave labor to clean the pools, watch their children etc. Maybe they think AI will replace the management of the peon class (not to mention their money) but will it be trustworthy enough? I guess that remains to be seen. I do think one of the big reasons for the destruction of Twitter in particular is that it served as a kind of Tower of Babel, letting us little people compare notes amongst ourselves. And I'm not sure if they can truly put that cat back into its bag.
Coming into my inbox at the same time as this post
https://substack.com/home/post/p-158186738
makes me wonder about cosmic connections.
You are definitely onto something, and it resonates with the political divide between "left and right". I think it has to do with whether we care about the existence of all the people, or only some of the people. That was going to be the topic of my dissertation, but it was TOO BIG. But I'm working on a short piece that addresses the essentials. People get all worried about the meaning of "care about" which is why I usually add in the word "existence" so it's a minimum obligation, even though I fervently believe we should have a universal basic income. But, baby steps.
AI can't yet replace everything, so they still need effective slave labor to clean the pools, watch their children etc. Maybe they think AI will replace the management of the peon class (not to mention their money) but will it be trustworthy enough? I guess that remains to be seen. I do think one of the big reasons for the destruction of Twitter in particular is that it served as a kind of Tower of Babel, letting us little people compare notes amongst ourselves. And I'm not sure if they can truly put that cat back into its bag.