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by dragonwriter 2 days ago
> Today, humans convert their labor to capital. Capital holders need labor (humans) to acquire more capital. When the price of inference for these robots becomes less than the price of labor then capital holders don’t need labor.

Ignoring quibbling about inference not being the only cost and other issues and just accepting the proposed end state: this is very good if capital is effectively democratized, and apocalyptically bad if it remains highly concentrated in a narrow class.

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> this is very good if capital is effectively democratized

Are there any indications to think it's possible in our world?

I mean, there's a time in history when the population successfully brought out the guillotines and made real change against centralized power.
A time when covert organization and coordination of opposition were possible, as opposed to the panopticon of today, monitored 24/7 in real time.