For Silicon Valley, AI isn’t just about replacing some jobs. It’s about replacing all of them "...I recently found myself at a dinner in an upstairs room at a restaurant in San Francisco hosted by a venture capital firm. The after-dinner speaker was a tech veteran who, having sold his AI […] - ThreadSky

ai6yr.m.ai6yr.org.ap.brid.gy • 8 days ago

For Silicon Valley, AI isn’t just about replacing some jobs. It’s about replacing all of them

"...I recently found myself at a dinner in an upstairs room at a restaurant in San Francisco hosted by a venture capital firm. The after-dinner speaker was a tech veteran who, having sold his AI […]

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mwguy.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy•8 days ago

@ai6yr Jokes on them, the salaries they'd capture have been massively depressed for decades!

EverydayMoggie.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy•7 days ago

Who do they think will be buying their products or services if most people have no income?

@ai6yr

gooba42.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•8 days ago

@ai6yr I've been saying for years now that employers resent everybody who makes more than $0.

If you're not already a literal slave, they are actively looking to render you unemployed. It was never about self checkout or whether the minimum wage was too high. It was always about American […]

brouhaha.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•7 days ago

@ai6yr
I've believed that this is their plan for quite a while, but it's amazing to see it explicitly stated.
A post-scarcity economy, but only for the billionaires. The rest? They'll die off soon enough.
Apparently they're not even worried about the merely wealthy figuring that they won't be on […]

darkuncle.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy•7 days ago

@ai6yr this is both hilariously misguided, and deeply dystopian, while also managing to be completely ignorant of both history and the actual capabilities of the technology.

(Anybody remember Segway claiming that cities around the world would be rearchitected for micro-mobility? Yeah.)

NorCalWineLady.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy•8 days ago

@ai6yr
Greedy mother truckers..

dalias.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy•7 days ago

@ai6yr No. Rather you can capture the savings of all the fools who believe that pitch and "invest" in your scam.

GhostOnTheHalfShell.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy•7 days ago

@ai6yr

You know that these guys don’t seem to understand if everybody can offer AI for nothing you won’t have those salaries.

An economy without people in them is what exactly?

But the part he isn’t saying out loud is the cult idea animating AI to get to AGI is that the silicon God will wipe […]

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