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by honkycat 1150 days ago
if society is going to collapse it is going to collapse. Even if we did pause AI development, bad actors would just ignore the rule and continue anyway.

It's easy for me to say, I am young and healthy and can move away from programming after it bought me a house. Maybe I'll work in a brewery...

Either way, the dirty words everyone seems to be avoiding is UBI and socialism.

If AI sincerely destroys every white collar job, well... that will be interesting.