on October 29, 2025, 8:49:22, in reply to "Open discussion on the future of AI and society"
"175. But suppose now that the computer scientists do not succeed in developing artificial intelligence, so that human work remains necessary. Even so, machines will take care of more and more of the simpler tasks so that there will be an increasing surplus of human workers at the lower levels of ability. (We see this happening already. There are many people who find it difficult or impossible to get work, because for intellectual or psychological reasons they cannot acquire the level of training necessary to make themselves useful in the present system.) On those who are employed, ever-increasing demands will be placed: They will need more and more training, more and more ability, and will have to be ever more reliable, conforming and docile, because they will be more and more like cells of a giant organism. Their tasks will be increasingly specialized, so that their work will be, in a sense, out of touch with the real world, being concentrated on one tiny slice of reality. The system will have to use any means that it can, whether psychological or biological, to engineer people to be docile, to have the abilities that the system requires and to “sublimate” their drive for power into some specialized task." 
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I was talking to my wife about our future and our kids future, and speculating on what it may look like. My initial thought is that we are essentially at the early stages of the S curve on AI development. If that is true, my expectation is that AI will quickly become more adept than humans in most aspects of human existence. We will have specialized robots doing damn near everything that humans are capable of doing now and doing it better than us. They will be smarter, and will be able to work 24x7 without breaks.
Which leads me down a couple of different paths.
1) What jobs WILL be available in the future that I should lead my children to?
2) Seems like smart money would be to invest in essentially every AI stock available today.
3) How do we prevent Terminator from becoming a reality?
4) Do we even need to worry about #3, or should we be more concerned about a "Mouse Utopia" type of end game? (If we aren't already in the midst of it)
5) With all of the above considerations, it seems like Elon may be on to something with Space Exploration. And it's less about the exploration than the need for mankind to be striving towards something. Without that goal, and with the rise of AI, there are going to be a whole lot of people that don't NEED to work, and don't have a DESIRE to work.
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