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goldygnome t1_j640sqj wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Asking here and not on an artist subreddit because you guys are non-artists who love AI and I don't want to get coddled. Genuinely, is there any point in continuing to make art when everything artists could ever do will be fundamentally replaceable in a few years? by [deleted]

Have you ever heard of atomic assemblers? They're advanced 3D printers that print in any element at an atomic scale. Ribosomes are a natural example of an atomic assembler that produces only proteins. The difference is that our atomic assemblers will be microscopic robots that can work with any element.

Imagine you had a home atomic assembler. It would be capable of making anything you need to survive, given access to raw atoms and electricity. It could make food, clothes, your house, solar panels, batteries, medicine, and even copies of itself.

That is what a post scarcity world looks like. There's no point to hoarding resources when a shovel full of dirt + the air around you contains all the atoms you'd need to make almost anything to could want. Nothing goes to waste because atomic assemblers also offer the possibility of disassembly making perfect recycling a possibility.

Even land would no longer in short supply. A person with an atomic assembler could build a life of luxury anywhere, even on marginal land that today is considered worthless. No need for infrastructure, access to water, employment or anything we need today.

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[deleted] OP t1_j651lxa wrote

That will literally never happen. Again you might as well be a Christian talking about how great Heaven is gonna be in terms of how much this relates to reality.

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goldygnome t1_j6axic5 wrote

I get that you don't like it, but you haven't given any reason why development will fail. The technology exists in nature, it's how you were constructed. We've already got nanoscale machines being used in manufacturing, both organic (DNA based) and inorganic. Those machines are importing rapidly.

It is inevitable (excluding a civilisation destroying crisis) because capitalism will drive manufacturing towards atomic assembly as it removes all the costs associated with a supply chain and human labor, a tremendous competitive advantage. That is also the end of capitalism because the cost of production will be close to zero with no material, energy or labor costs.

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