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

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207 points lexandstuff | 3 comments | 05 Jul 25 21:19 UTC | HN request time: 1.38s | 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. dinkumthinkum ◴[06 Jul 25 02:50 UTC] No.44477432[source]▶
I’m curious as to why you think this is a good comparison. I hear it a lot but I don’t think it makes as much sense as its promulgators propose. Did fire, the wheel, or any of these other things threaten the very process of human innovation itself? Do you know not see a fundamental difference. People like to say “democratize” all the time but how democratized do you think you would feel if you and anyone you know couldn’t afford a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of, much less some hardware and electricity to run your local LLM?
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2. squigz ◴[06 Jul 25 08:36 UTC] No.44478910[source]▶
Did paint and canvas kill human innovation? Did the photograph? Did digital art?

"The very process of human innovation" will survive, I assure you.

3. nradov ◴[06 Jul 25 09:54 UTC] No.44479279[source]▶
The invention of the scientific method fundamentally changed the very process of human innovation itself.