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I spend an unhealthy amount of time debating AI enthusiasts on
which yes I know is an unhealthy habit but fucking sue me.
They're all convinced it will usher in UBI. There logic is that the rich won't want to live in some dystopian society hidden in bunkers and will voluntarily give up some of their wealth to create a stable society where they can still go the Cannes or whatever.
You can point out to them till you're blue in the face that the bourgeois have no long term vision, that they're already creating a dystopia via climate change, that they're already investing in luxury bunkers in New Zealand, and that historically the bourgeois have fought tooth and nail to resist the creation of any kind of welfare state, they don't fucking care.
After all these unhealthy, pointless debates, I've concluded most AI fans just like pulling the slot machine lever to get soft-core cat-girl porn so much that they can rationalize whatever to justify it. Their arguments are so fucking bad, they talk like children, because I think most of them are.
if the bourgeois were ever going to sacrifice a little fraction of their wealth accumulation to stave off dystopian hellscape, they would jave done it already. the hellscape is here.
there's maybe something to the notion that they don't know it is already here, because in the US wealth is primarily used/leveraged to buy ones way out of having to perceive the existence of poverty.
a better school district, a private school, a better neighborhood, a better community always means the same thing. higher property values & gated communities, more civic infrastructure compartmentalized from the decaying infrastructure of the poor.
ive lived in different parts of the US and certainly some are still more sheltered than others, but i have a hard time taking anyone seriously who can't admit how dire circumstances are for most people, including many of the historically advantaged segments like the college educated, the professionalized public sector workers, young scientists in training, etc.
20 years ago, these groups were pretty much guaranteed to be on the path to homeownership, starting families, etc. now the people on that path are deciding if they can afford to have a family (they can't) and can only get into a mortgage if their parents were well off enough to squirrel away a down payment they could fork over even as healthcare and elder care costs ascend into the stratosphere.
anyone pleading ignorance now is willing.
The AI billionaires seem pretty convinced that the AI they are building will bring some sort of dystopia. Transitive property, they are intentionally working towards a dystopia.