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[+] 31 points 1 year ago (1 child)
  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    AI is already replacing significant parts of the technical workforce. The key is that it doesn't have to successfully replace them. It just has to convince the sociopaths in the C-suites that they can pretend it will so they can layoff masses of employees. That will allow them to collect obscenely large bonuses, sell their stock at a huge profit, and move on to destroying the next round of businesses. Fortunately, the only people this will hurt are, well, us.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    Universal basic income is a social welfare proposal in which all citizens of a given population regularly receive a minimum income in the form of an unconditional transfer payment, i.e., without a means test or need to perform work. In contrast, a guaranteed minimum income is paid only to those who do not already receive an income that is enough to live on. A UBI would be received independently of any other income. If the level is sufficient to meet a person's basic needs (i.e., at or above the poverty line), it is considered a full basic income; if it is less than that amount, it is called a partial basic income.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It's depressing that the US, which is pushing AI hard, is also dismantling the structures they would need to get a populace with the soft skills mentioned above. The destruction of "everything woke" equals the destruction of soft skills.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago*

    Except AI would break everything so just watch the digital fires that are about to get started. They already figured a method to put malicious code in AI crawlers. Imagine you tell AI to code and it uses malware in the code.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    "Could"

    Yeah and 100% of jobs "could" vanish if your mom is allowed to "roam free"

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    This is a variant of modern natural selection: if you are stupid, you are doomed.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago

    You could also go the other way, if you are smart incapable of being efficient at me menial labour. You will go hungry, until such a time you are hungry enough to do the menial labour for very cheap.

    Turning us into two distinctly separate classes, low educated low intelligence, and high intelligence, highly educated elites controlling swarms of smart AI

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