[simonbarker87]

I also wonder what everyone is supposed to do if skills are simply AI’d in to uselessness.

The usual answer is something about how rich people want to rule the world and not pay for labour … but then that world will become pretty unpleasant for them to live in so that doesn’t track to me.

[ToucanLoucan]

This presumes the rich are looking further ahead than next quarter which doesn't scan for me considering the sorts of things a lot of them say.

[thatguy0900]

Rich people seem to be content with building a luxurious emergency bunker in new Zealand and then just rolling the dice on whether the world will go to shit or not. The only conclusion I can really come to is that they know the world will be going to shit no matter what they do or something.

[avidiax]

Rich people have a prisoner's dilemma if they are sufficiently self-aware. Maximum individual wealth and profit will come from maximally embracing AI. But if everyone does that, they are indeed rolling the dice on whether they'll instead be eating canned beans in New Zealand instead of upgrading their 150ft. yacht to a 155ft. yacht.

[ToucanLoucan]

> sufficiently self-aware

You look at people like Bezos, Musk and Zuck and tell me they have a shred of self-awareness.