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Sometimes we have those little epiphanies in the shower.. sometimes they come from other places. This is a home for those epiphanies.

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Don't forget that when the big corporations thought that AI would easily replace all the humans, they signed up for it without even a look back. (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (12 children)

If AI and robots are doing all the work, literally all of it, then our whole society falls apart and corporations are meaningless, since money is meaningless if robots can create stuff for us for free. If we don't need to work, we can't buy stuff from them, so a socialist society would necessarily emerge, which would be good.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

But the transition period will first make a lot of people even poorer. Homes will be just, lives in turmoil as robots replace jobs but any potential socialist structure not yet in place.

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