AI and capitalism, AI and socialism
AI and capitalism, AI and socialism
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403 Forbidden.
https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/stupidpol/comments/1re6e7b/ai_and_capitalism_ai_and_socialism/
I might be weird in that I'm not pro or anti AI. But I have noticed the shift where 10+ years ago people could think of it as a potential post-scarcity situation, and now it's pure evil. But every argument seems framed in capitalism:
- destroying livelihoods: capitalism was already at the "bullshit jobs" stage, this'll make it worse
- enshittification of services: nascent technology that isn't ready to replace humans, replacing humans because cost
- coolant water: shitty cheap placement and/or lack of drinking water infrastructure
- power consumption: not a problem with adequate clean power
- chip shortages: outsourcing all production to exploit Chinese labour in Taiwan
...and so on.
Is there still room to think of a future where these problems could be addressed and people could still imagine an Iain Banks type of post-scarcity socialism? Or is that now conflated with techbro BS?
We saw similar problems with the industrial revolution, but Marxism wasn't about hating tractors or "dark satanic mills", it was geared towards removing the system that made it so shit.