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azuriasia t1_je62llo wrote

Reply to comment by Bewaretheicespiders in Are there AI theorists/philosophers who have already thought out sensible rules for how to best regulate AI development? by dryuhyr

Punitively taxing automation would adequately prevent the most negative effects of ai from coming to pass.

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Bewaretheicespiders t1_je63h00 wrote

Of all the ideas in the history of humanity, taxing improvement in productivity is the dumbest.

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azuriasia t1_je6437x wrote

Governments' jobs are to serve the citizenry, not just the top 1%. This "improvement" will claim millions of careers while allowing the super rich to oppress the lower classes in a wah never before seen. If you're not already a multi millionaire, you're not in their club.

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Bewaretheicespiders t1_je64hfr wrote

You drank way much kool aid, kid. You should take a break from social media.

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azuriasia t1_je65llo wrote

You have your head buried in the sand. The economy needs a chance to brace for millions unemployed.

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Bewaretheicespiders t1_je6648p wrote

Its your first time, innit? Ive heard that every decade since the 70s. A productive society is a society that can afford a lot of goods and services and thus improvements in productivity leads to higher employment, not less.

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azuriasia t1_je66kf1 wrote

There has never been anything close to AI.

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Bewaretheicespiders t1_je67b7b wrote

There had never been anything like the tractor, the computer, the internet...

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azuriasia t1_je67mhy wrote

And none of them had the immediate job displacing potential that ai does.

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Bewaretheicespiders t1_je688hj wrote

The fact that you dont still work 120 hours a week in a field says otherwise.

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azuriasia t1_je68rcg wrote

People work more hours now than medieval peasants. Your analogy is laughably achronistic

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johnkfo t1_je6n602 wrote

not if the benefits of automation/AI still outweigh not automating and you'd have to get to ridiculous levels of taxation

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azuriasia t1_je6ocd9 wrote

I'm talking taxes that would make any work not done by a human being completely unprofitable, maybe even at a loss. Real emphasis on the punative there.

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johnkfo t1_je6plrq wrote

might as well just ban it then, which isn't going to happen. or AI developers will move to countries with low or no tax and your country will become irrelevant in terms of economy and technological advancement

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azuriasia t1_je6pww9 wrote

Let those countries implode under the weight of 80% unemployment.

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