Actually, no. There was a great article about why the ruling class cared about people (to a certain degree): 1. Fear, because the masses can kill them, 2. The masses are needed as workforce.
Both fear and workforce will be solved for them by AI and robotics soon. Military robots and AI can protect the ruling class, while working robots and AI will manufacture, repair, cure everything they need.
According to the article, this will not lead to the killing of the masses, only to a steady population decline which will lead to a “society” of a few robot lords people that is protected and served by robots. Eventually, they will also clash and the technologically superior will win. If the winning robot lord and his/her court is not composed of enough people, that’s going to lead to inbreeding, genetical decline and eventually, the extinction of the human race.
There was a very interesting part which explained that the rich will most likely also die and robot lords will emerge from those who know how to instruct robots, i.e. engineers, programmers, etc.
The article gave a detailed analysis of the above outcome through economics. But my main issue is that I don’t find it anywhere, anymore.
We were foolish to peg our power to our labour/servitude/slavery. No path to emancipation like that. Pegs us to our abuser driving us all to doom.
We were foolish to accept being called “ordinary people”. That basically means we’re ordinance. Cannon fodder.
“Worthless eaters” some in the ruling class call us.
We can still mend this.
Even the richest can be better off (and not join the extinct) with the clean emancipatory technology being de-secreted and utilised. As it shall, either sooner, in wise foresight, or later, in desperation.
Actually, no. There was a great article about why the ruling class cared about people (to a certain degree): 1. Fear, because the masses can kill them, 2. The masses are needed as workforce.
Both fear and workforce will be solved for them by AI and robotics soon. Military robots and AI can protect the ruling class, while working robots and AI will manufacture, repair, cure everything they need.
According to the article, this will not lead to the killing of the masses, only to a steady population decline which will lead to a “society” of a few robot lords people that is protected and served by robots. Eventually, they will also clash and the technologically superior will win. If the winning robot lord and his/her court is not composed of enough people, that’s going to lead to inbreeding, genetical decline and eventually, the extinction of the human race.
There was a very interesting part which explained that the rich will most likely also die and robot lords will emerge from those who know how to instruct robots, i.e. engineers, programmers, etc.
The article gave a detailed analysis of the above outcome through economics. But my main issue is that I don’t find it anywhere, anymore.
We were foolish to peg our power to our labour/servitude/slavery. No path to emancipation like that. Pegs us to our abuser driving us all to doom.
We were foolish to accept being called “ordinary people”. That basically means we’re ordinance. Cannon fodder.
“Worthless eaters” some in the ruling class call us.
We can still mend this.
Even the richest can be better off (and not join the extinct) with the clean emancipatory technology being de-secreted and utilised. As it shall, either sooner, in wise foresight, or later, in desperation.
Ah, yes, Solarians