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AI itself isn't really the point of issue, consider the printing press, or the internet, it's the social, cultural, economic transformation that it comes in its wake that really matters. In our case now, we're looking at the potential automation of knowledge work, and certainly this implies that many people are going to be made redundant or replaced by a superior AI.

But I think you're missing the fact that this power dynamic isn't a one-way street, you may have access to the same level of productive AI tech that your bosses leveraged against you in the first place. Already, look at how many people are incorporating ChatGPT into their workflows, soon enough, it'll probably be able to handle 95% of any knowledge tasks that you ask it to do.

If a calculator is like having a math whiz in your pocket then the future of AI will be like having a Fortune 500 company in your pocket; accountants, lawyers, engineers, designers, assistants, salespeople - it would cost you millions in wages to buy that kind of people power - AI will do for less than what you pay for home internet. One person would have the potential to be as productive as a whole startup, or a dozen, even a corp with one million employees.

If you haven't guessed by now this will only make income inequality far, far, far worse. As even more wealth and power is centralized into an even smaller number of hands. Opportunties to get rich quick will be everywhere yet at the same time so far away. No doubt it will accelerate capitalism to its inevitable terminal breaking point. The real issue here is the paradox of, why do we have a progressively shittier quality of life overall despite exponential improvements to productivity across the board? And the answer will be, grimly, that we are both incapable and unwilling to conquer our greed.

Maybe, but ChatGPT isn’t adapted for code at all. It’s adapted to be a better information retrieving conversationalist, in the future there will certainly be AIs that are specifically adapted to write code, parse errors, bug test itself, etc

History will repeat itself. Like with any revolution worth writing about, first AI will produce unprecedented wealth and power which will only be enjoyed by the elite few. The inequality will escalate to the point of violence when the masses rise up and start chopping heads. The road to an AGI powered utopia will be paved in the blood of todays technocratic elite.

I mean streaming locally. Just a few meters from a box in your living room to the headset on your face. The box being a computer with better specs than a 2012 android phone.

Why can’t we just have a little computer with a good GPU and an antenna that locally streams PC content to a lightweight display instead of insisting on packing all our apps onto a piece of shit Android APK?

Mom answering the phone meant the titty pic you’ve been loading for the last 30 minutes would fail. Playing PC games with friends meant hauling the computer, the monitor, keyboard and mouse into the back of the Ford Windstar. You laughed at the nerds taking notes on their Palm Pilots. Watching a movie meant going to the Blockbuster and renting a VHS cassette. RuneScape when it first came out was absolutely revolutionary. MSN messenger was the shit. Neopets was the best thing since Beanie Babies, and their in-game currency had more utility than Bitcoin does today.

The answer is, it doesn’t matter. A brain of neurons and it’s synthetic counterpart and every point in between is all consciousness. Life and the continuity of self and the concept of identity is all an illusion. It’s simply evolutionarily inconvenient for people to wake up every morning with no memories, experiences and skills. What we are is simply a pattern etched into some meat like a well trodden path through a field.

AI will find new ways to discriminate between us in ways beyond even our own comprehension.

That depends on where the 'power' of AI ends up being held. If by governments, and corporations, and a technocratic elite, then inequality and the balance of power in society will be worse.

You already failed by problematizing ageing.