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> What are we gonna do about the ever increasing N+1% of people who won’t be cost effective versus an AI?

Their quality of life will increase because of all the cheap stuff we can make with ai and robots. They will coexist and compete with robots. Upward mobility should be better, given the access to advanced technology.

Worst case scenario, they can all band together outside of the advanced civilisation, grow their food and live a separate life.

There is no need to make high iq people to pay for low iq to live in a high iq society.

We're already seeing a divide of cities for rich people and cities for poor people. It will just be more pronounced.




> Their quality of life will increase because of all the cheap stuff we can make with ai and robots.

Ahh, the old "modern poor people are better off than medevial kings since we have microwaves and supercomputers in our pockets". No matter that they are all stressed, living paycheck to paycheck and a single (treatable) disease from crippling debt.


> single (treatable) disease from crippling debt.

This sounds a lot better than being a single (treatable) disease from guaranteed death?

Which many, many, historical monarchs experienced.

At least some fraction of such monarchs would have gladly taken the opportunity to swap places if they had known in advance.


> This sounds a lot better than

You can justify pretty much any horrible thing with "sounds better than a torment nexus"


What's a 'torment nexus'?


By the same logic there's also no need for high IQ AIs to pay for low IQ humans.

It's all fun and games until suddenly you're the one on the outside, wondering how you get there.


Right...we make stuff cheaper than ever before...but because all these people don't have jobs they can't afford it anyway...




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