I kind of disagree with how it will play out - I'm more optimistic. A couple of points:
>Virtually all the advances in technology and civilization have been aimed at people capturing resources, people, and value...
Not really so - people invent new stuff because it's cool. Maybe eg Geoffrey Hinton and neural networks. Then the business types try to jump in and capture resources - maybe Sam? But that's not really working with current AI - it all gets open sourced shortly after.
Info tech seems to spread rather evenly. Even in Africa a lot of people have smartphones and can access Google and ChatGPT like we can.
In the future people in democracies will be able to vote for universal income, free healthcare, free other stuff and the like. At the moment it doesn't fly to give everyone free stuff because someone has to do the work still - we don't quite have the AI robots yet. But when we do have it'll probably be the way to go.
>Virtually all the advances in technology and civilization have been aimed at people capturing resources, people, and value...
Not really so - people invent new stuff because it's cool. Maybe eg Geoffrey Hinton and neural networks. Then the business types try to jump in and capture resources - maybe Sam? But that's not really working with current AI - it all gets open sourced shortly after.
Info tech seems to spread rather evenly. Even in Africa a lot of people have smartphones and can access Google and ChatGPT like we can.
In the future people in democracies will be able to vote for universal income, free healthcare, free other stuff and the like. At the moment it doesn't fly to give everyone free stuff because someone has to do the work still - we don't quite have the AI robots yet. But when we do have it'll probably be the way to go.