Been thinking about this recently with the birth of my second child due soon and what world she will grow up in framed against a recent fascination of the 19th century industrial revolution and my family tree. In the 1850s my family were on a farm in the English West Country. They had several children a few died, their life was fields and toil. Much changed during the next 100 years and by the time my father was born in 1936 the world was not the same. Despite the second world war it was a fundamentally different time. Fast forward to now and I am sat with a light box that has the power in it to make my ancestors think I may doth be a wizard. They would be in awe of the house I have the food I have access too and all the trappings of everything we tend to take for granted. Are our concerns of the future baked into a inability that our ancestors had to realise a world changed? We worry what will people do for a job? Who will “buy” the products this ai and robotic revolution will produce if no one is being paid to produce them. I keep thinking to my self that it might just be fine… that the overton window of what is “normal” will shift again. What if the latest iPhone does not matter because iphones are produced and are cheap like a bag of sugar at a coffee shop? My 19th century ancestors could not contemplate a bag of sugar being free. Yet at the same time my ancestors would bawk in horror that we are the most connected humans have ever been logistically but perhaps the most disconnected we have been emotionally and as a society. Perhaps we are entering a phase of abundance that will be “normal” for my unborn daughter and when she is 20+ she will look on how we worried about material things with shock like I look back at my family tree and see dead child after dead child, the next one born to “help the family”. Perhaps she will live in a world where artificial intelligence is so impactful and so normal that the value of human connection and the freedom to pursue it is valued over all else. submitted by /u/latro666
Originally posted by u/latro666 on r/ArtificialInteligence