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What cannot continue forever, won't.

We are gaining efficiency (sometimes), at the cost of increased minimum scale of production, and complexity. Both of which increase fragility, in Taleb's sense of the word.

At scale, my country can no longer fuel itself, nor fertilise crops, nor make semiconductors.

One day we will offend China enough to trigger sanctions, and that day will come. I worry about that day, not robot utopia...

Laeserin 7mo ago

I agree that it can't go on forever, we are just disagreeing about whether humans or machines are the last ones standing. Humans can't seem to find a reason for their own existence, anymore, so they're capitulating.

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Low Information Voter 7mo ago

Anomie and ennui are here, but they're far from evenly distributed.

Other than that, 100% agree.

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 7mo ago

machines don't have a reason without humans so there's also that

biggest fallacy of the singularity narrative is that robots can be customers, i can trace that error of logic through dozens of things... like smart contracts, one of the ideas behind that had to do with robots buying stuff from robots

absolutely none of that has ever happened or will happen. the robot is just here to make the human more productive. the end.

Laeserin 7mo ago

Machines don't need a reason, is the thing. They require no motivation.

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 7mo ago

without reason there cannot be value

Laeserin 7mo ago

Value is relative and therefore only matters if you need to make decisions about whether to do A or B. Machines A can do A. Machine B can do B. No decision required.