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"Inventing the Future" by Nick #Srnicek (2015) is a political and philosophical journey leading to 3 mutually-reinforcing demands:
1. Full automation
2. Universal basic income
3. Reduced work-time
Automation is great when its rewards are shared: the Luddites protested not the machines, but the concentration of capital.
It seems there's not been a better occasion to demand full automation - many are doing that already.
Now is the time to agitate for #UBI and reduced work-time (again.)
The AI stuff fills me with anxiety mostly because it's happening in the imperial, capitalist ecocide - and accelerating it.
What if there were narrow models, trained consensually, forced to use renewables, x, y, z? What if "I might lose my job" was actually a good thing? That's not our timeline sadly, but it is how it could look. Needs to look!
For me this is the perspective. The dynamic hasn't changed, it's "just" accelerating.
Just seems like a golden opportunity now to surface and delete bullshit jobs as well as surfacing and highlighting actually-very-useful jobs.
We should be challenging any outspoken AI-maxxers about their opinions on UBI and working hours, forcing their hand to speak up for life and dignity - or outing themselves as monsters.
@douginamug They've been outed as monsters. They are clearly ok with the proles shaming them, it has no effect on their lives.
@radio_alelopatia sure, many have shown their hand. I guess I'm talking more about the people in the office, at the pub, at the hackerspace... we're not going to increase of political consciousness in the arena of celebrities. And normal(er) people are typically much less monstrous.
