[Aaargh20318]

> What AI is being sold as right now is not really productivity. In many domains, productivity is already sufficient. What’s being sold is workforce reduction.

And workforce reduction is a nobel goal. In fact, I think it's one of the most important things humanity should focus on. We should strive for a workforce of zero. Humans currently was an enormous amount of their life working instead of more worthwhile pursuits.

I despise the rhetoric around this, we didn't "lose jobs" over AI, we saved ourselves a lot of work. What it does do is highlight a problem in our current society: the link between labour and the access to resources (e.g. money).

I don't think that AI is the ultimate answer to the problem of work, but it can contribute to it.

[only-one1701]

The time to solve that resource problem is before AI concentrates power, not after. It’s LESS likely to happen when a tiny elite increases their already huge amount of power.

[esseph]

Jobless people normally can't feed themselves in a modern world.

And uh, healthcare. Among other things.

[Aaargh20318]

Exactly, so that problem needs to be solved. Labour and income should not be linked.

[esseph]

I think you could go at least another 10,000 years and that still wouldn't be "solved".