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Techno-feudalism and the rise of AGI: A future without economic rights?

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207 points lexandstuff | 2 comments | 05 Jul 25 21:19 UTC | HN request time: 1.468s | source
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zugi ◴[06 Jul 25 02:01 UTC] No.44477168[source]▶
Did the rise of fire, the wheel, the printing press, manufacturing, and microprocessors also give rise to futures without economic rights? I can download a dozen LLMs today and run them on my own machine. AI may well do the opposite, and democratize information and intelligence in currently unimaginable ways. It's far too early to say.
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1. goatlover ◴[06 Jul 25 02:15 UTC] No.44477257[source]▶
There was quite a lot of slavery and conquering empires in between the invention of fire and microprocessors, so yes to an extent. Microprocessors haven't put an end to authoritarian regimes or massive wealth inequalities and the corrupting effect that has on politics, unfortunately.
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2. Lerc ◴[06 Jul 25 02:39 UTC] No.44477383[source]▶
A lot of advances led to bad things, at the same time they led to good things.

Conversely a lot of very bad things led to good things. Worker rights advanced greatly after the plague. A lot of people died but that also mean there was a shortage of labour.

Similarly WWII, advanced women's rights because they were needed to provide vital infrastructure.

Good and bad things have good and bad outcomes, much of what defines if it is good or bad is the balance of outcomes, but it would be foolhardy to classify anything as universally good or bad. Accept the good outcomes of the bad. address the bad outcomes of the good.