[mrshadowgoose]

> We already produce more than enough for economic liberation all over the world, many times over. It hasn't happened. Why?

Because directing material resources towards that end requires a certain aggregate amount of willing/aligned general intelligence, which we simply don't have as a society. Failure after failure of socialist states demonstrate that human general intelligence is on average, uninterested in working towards the greater good. AGI won't have such limitations.

The blog post even addresses this: "the cost of intelligence and the cost of energy constrain a lot of things".

However, I actually do agree with you, but for a different reason. AGI is highly unlikely to yield economic liberation for the masses. Not because we won't have the intelligence capacity, but because the iota of people that will have their hands on the levers of power will in all likelyhood be uninterested in tending to the masses of now economically useless people.