[marcosdumay]

> but it looks like finance has become mostly independent

It's not. The fact that when we take a little bit of human demand away, everything falls apart is evidence of that.

Governments are a kind of AI that demands stuff by itself. We've been good at keeping it at check up to now. I'm not concerned about anything else being a more effective consumer until we get into superhuman AI, as desiring stuff is not something we engineer very well.

I agree much more with your concerns about wealth distribution. Automation's endgame is pushing the price of everything into zero, and the salary of everybody also into zero. Buying power on that scenario is too loosely defined to let anybody stay calm.

[pygy_]

Couldn't industrial corporations become demand drivers?

[marcosdumay]

They could. But why would they?

Why would corporations decide to buy stuff for their own sake? That's a loss of what they are built to maximize, that is money.