[leoncos]

The last sentence in the article is correct:

"Maybe I should consider transforming my woodworking hobby into a profession."

As an AI optimist, I think all forced labor should eventually be done by AI. People can then spend their time pursuing their own hobbies. Just as many people still play Go after AlphaGo appeared, because they genuinely love the game.

In the future, coding may return to being an art form. People will no longer focus on utility alone, but instead on the enjoyment of the process of writing code itself.

[mahogany]

> As an AI optimist, I think all forced labor should eventually be done by AI. People can then spend their time pursuing their own hobbies. Just as many people still play Go after AlphaGo appeared, because they genuinely love the game.

And what sort of economic system do you imagine will be in place to support billions of people being able to just play Go all day long? How do you imagine the large capitalistic global powers transitioning into that state?

[juleiie]

I think that huge deflation will follow for everything except land value.

If automation makes producing food so cheap that it is almost free than it is ridiculously easy to acquire it. Similarly automated construction.

The way I see it the economy will point towards outer space. That’s where most jobs and flow of economy will be.

However most people will have 10x times uplift in purchasing power compared to today so their relative poverty will be ridiculous for us to call it the poverty but they will still think they are poor and troubled.

Generally I don’t think it will be utopia for the people living in that moment but if you look from medieval times at today it looks like utopia for serfs from the past. You however wouldn’t call it an utopia because your standards grew as fast as your purchasing power.

I think that rich and poor will be separated by accessibility to anti age treatment and other bodily improvements.

The tragedy of the poors in the future will be living measly 80 year old life like a today millionaire and that will be considered lower class. Those people with wrinkles we don’t want to look at because of uncomfortable pangs of guilt.

[zelphirkalt]

Food is already extremely cheap to produce. So cheap, that we waste approximately 50% of it, before it even gets into households. Yet we are still forced to use money to buy it in stores, instead of getting it at no or almost no cost. I think they will find ways to keep everything costing quite a bit.

[i5heu]

A lot of this is because food is hard.

For example: people in developing countries throw away more food then in developed countries although it is relative to their income much more value. The reason is because they often do not own fridges, use a lot of rice which spoils fast or have difficulties with the food supply chain in other forms.

Food waste is a bad indicator for food value.

[zelphirkalt]

> In the future, coding may return to being an art form. People will no longer focus on utility alone, but instead on the enjoyment of the process of writing code itself.

Great, if someone will find it in them to pay me. Real bad, if not.

[nevertoolate]

So you believe that your work will be done by AI and you will enjoy life more? This is not a loaded question, just trying to understand what your future ideal day / week would look like as an "ai optimist".

[zaphirplane]

That’s just not economically viable. Even if it becomes viable after some singularity event the path there will be 1000 the upheaval seen during the wipe out of manufacturing and mining