Another example of the AGI's malign impact: Network effect censorship
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifhC-maXJ3o On Mon, Sep 6, 2021 at 9:20 AM James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: > The single biggest problem with the economy is capital misallocation > resulting from private capture of positive network externalities inherent > in civilization. I foresaw this back when I was responsible, in large > measure, for the change in law resulting now in the spate of orbital launch > services, and wrote this paper proposing to replace taxes on economic > activity with a single tax on liquidation value of net assets, and to take > the revenue and replace virtually all government services with a citizen's > dividend. > > http://ota.polyonymo.us/others-papers/NetAssetTax_Bowery.txt > > I also, in that paper, predicted the demographic implosion that people are > still coming to grips with: > > The global economy, as it stands, is a malign cyborg -- an "unfriendly > AGI" that consumes the genetic basis of its own components by outbidding > the family for the fertile years of the most economically valuable > females. The pig-in-a-poke "transhumanists" are standing in the way of > correcting this AGI's malign impact on the world with their hopium. > > On Sun, Sep 5, 2021 at 5:02 PM Matt Mahoney <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On Thu, Sep 2, 2021 at 5:57 AM Quan Tesla <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > "Full employment can be had with the stoke of a pen. Simply institute a >> six hour workday. That will easily create enough new jobs to bring back >> full employment." >> > >> > Would this mean that government employees would have to productively >> work 2 hours extra per day? >> >> This would only work in a fantasy model of economics where jobs are >> interchangeable and at no cost. In reality, we have both unemployment >> and a labor shortage. It costs 1% of lifetime earnings to the employer >> and employee to change jobs within similar fields, and much longer to >> learn a new field. >> >> So in this fantasy world, we would already be at full employment. >> Reducing hours by 25% would reduce GDP by 25%, resulting in a 3 year >> decrease in life expectancy. (Each doubling of income adds 5 years). >> >> And we don't WANT full employment. 60% of Americans don't work now, >> and we are fine with that. Some are too young or too old or busy >> raising children or disabled or have low IQ or criminal records or are >> addicted to drugs. Unemployment statistics only count those with job >> skills who are being paid by the government to not work. >> >> What we want are intelligent machines that will make work easier, >> safer and more productive, raising our incomes while lowering the >> costs of goods and services. >> >> -- >> -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T50e86f61cc07a7b3-M491b47dba8ccafa9fb1274a6 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
