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by abiraja 538 days ago
And also the solving of hundreds of diseases that ail us.
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You need to solve diseases and make the cure available. Millions die of curable diseases every year, simply because they are not deemed useful enough. What happens when your labor becomes worthless?
One of the biggest factors in risk of death right now is poverty. Also what is being chased right now is "human level on most economically viable tasks" because the automated research for solving physics etc. even now seems far-fetched.
Why do you think you’ll be able to afford healthcare? The new medicine is for the AI owners
It doesn’t matter. Statists rather be poor, sick, and dead than risking trillionaires.
You should read about workers right in the gilded age, and see how good laissez-faire capitalism was. What do you think will happen when the only thing you can trade with the trillionaires, your labor, becomes worthless?