3d ago

AI might be creating a ‘permanent underclass’ but it’s the makers of the tech bubble who are replaceable | Van Badham

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3d ago

AI might be creating a ‘permanent underclass’ but it’s the makers of the tech bubble who are replaceable

www.theguardian.com /commentisfree/2025/oct/16/ai-creating-underclass-makers-tech-bubble-replaceable

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Well as long as people will be using tech monopolies products, alternatives will be underfunded and there will be AI development. No movement or article can stop it.
(AI will) reach or exceed human capacity” by 2027
Dude. It hasn't even reached the capacity of a mildly intellectually challenged mouse.
- Most calculators exceed human capacity.
  
  Not intellectually. But mathematically. Most humans at least. Me for sure, I can't even add two 1-digit-numbers in head without thinking :-)
I'm sure those billionaires will be crying into their money when they're finally "replaceed".
Huge comfort to the starving masses.
This is kinda cope
Practically everyone's job is going to be automated away before long, the important thing is that production is socialised before practically 1 guy owns everything and has to pay no one.
At that point things end up pretty concrete.
These opinion pieces that pop up saying "ha-HA! Behold the petard they're hoisting themselves with!" Kinda miss the importance of preparation.
They falsely expect an easing to an exponential curve.
The cat leapt out of the bag decades ago, we all need to make sure we've got something left at the end of it all
- We haven’t yet made an AI that can replace anyone’s job, so it might be better to hold off on resigning ourselves to that fate.
  
  It doesn't have to be AI. automation has already made a lost of jobs trivial or irrelevant, which is why we are so productive as a species and yet still do 40hr weeks.
  Try searching for the theory of "bullshit jobs". It's all just patchwork to keep global capitalism based economy going in circles.
Replace CEOs with AI. They will be just as crazy and incompetent, but we can pay them a lot less.
Who can lead us to cooperative ownership of datacenter and internet hard infrastructure? Who will organize the collective digital workforce? Who will assemble the fund?
ah yes chatbot seller says these things will become so capable, they're gonna destroy the world, just you wait and see, but need trillion dollars in financing first. op have you eaten your daily recommended pebble today?
- I'm sure after Nvidia pay themselves again though openAI we will get AGI
Let the tech giants have AI & all of human knowledge. They subsidize UBI with their bubble profits. They stole everything, so seems fair?

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