Spencer Greenberg > where (hypothetically) AI can do everything...
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Spencer Greenberg > where (hypothetically) AI can do everything better, faster and cheaper than every human - what do you expect people to hire humans to DO? They will hire humans to satisfy whatever (n+1)th desire that remains unsatisfied after the last available robot has been hired to satisfy their nth desire. Imagine that you're stranded on a desert island. You see how you would be desperately poor, right? You'd have to make everything yourself, grow your own food, etc. One day, suppose a second human ("Sam") washes ashore. You'd rejoice, right? Now you can share the work. While you're growing breadfruit, Sam could be fishing, for example. By specializing and trading, both of you would get more nutritious food than you would get alone. Now suppose that an advanced robot ("HAL") washes ashore. Let's assume HAL is 10X more productive than Sam in every way, at half the cost in calories. Does the existence of Hal mean you would have no more use for Sam? No! No matter how much more productive HAL might be, there would still be many tasks that HAL just wouldn't be able to get to. It would still be mutually beneficial to have HAL do the highest value tasks he can do, and have Sam do the highest value tasks he can do and then trade the fruits of their labor. Does the logic change if more HAL's show up on shore? No. The only thing that changes is that everyone specializes more and more (thereby becoming more productive).