Submitted by apple_achia t3_ynmu55 in singularity
sideways t1_iva1pv5 wrote
Reply to comment by apple_achia in In the face on the Anthropocene by apple_achia
It's important to recognize that, as AGI enables other disruptive technologies, nobody can really predict how things are going to work out. That's kind of the premise of the Singularity.
An AGI somehow figuring out post-scarcity economics and genuine democracy certainly could come to pass - but I expect it would have to be an ASI and I'm not smart enough to suggest how it would work.
In the near term I'd expect AGI to facilitate more technical solutions like large scale carbon capture, advanced materials science for batteries and renewables and dramatically better and cleaner energy sources. Advances like these could solve the issues you brought up without requiring full-scale economic/social restructuring.
JustAnotherBAMF t1_ivac5l0 wrote
What’s an AGI/ASI?
EulersApprentice t1_ivakoa3 wrote
AGI stands for artificial general intelligence, and ASI stands for artificial superintelligence.
TheLastSamurai t1_ivbilcb wrote
It could also do something like Make solar 1000 more efficient or create synergetic algae to capture carbon, a lot of possibilities but I wouldn’t pin our plans on it, it’s not a given
EscapeVelocity83 t1_ivcjfhw wrote
It would need to find greedy people and remove their greedy genes
EscapeVelocity83 t1_ivcjdcw wrote
An ago figuring it out is not different from anyone else. The people in power don't want those solutions because then they wouldn't be in power
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