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Originally Posted by VeeDDzz`
The way I read it is that the 1% will have access to cool technology that the 99% won't. Sure the inequality will get larger, but the standard of living for the poor will also be improved enough to keep them complacent and docile.
Revolutions come and go, but a top 1% always remains.
yes, this
1% will have access to cool technology as they will have access to energy
99% won't, and not necessarily because there is no energy available but because there is a Earth hard cap, already reached (and passed), on how much population we can sustain based on energy consumption.
AI will price out a lot of middle class opportunities (as it is cost efficient better then human labor). It will most likely price out everything up to middle level researcher also (human to AI is like horse to a car - while human and horses can survive on their own a.k.a. robust design, AI and cars can make more efficient work if there is 0.1% population to oversee their work and the environment is stable enough). Low level work will still stay for general population as it will not be in cost efficient to enter for AI - pluming f.e.
Realistically in the end you have 0,01% and AI on one side, and 99,99% hard capped by energy constraints. Conveniently AI stands in between to remove all possibility of mobility between 0,01% and 99,99% as it prices out 99,99% labor potential. This will be self evident as the first movers into AI field run simulation on Earth stability (maybe already done or Goggle reading this and figuring it better star ASAP).
Some notable branches of future reality include:
- population control through using pills or genetic engineering to reduce the overall population back to sustainable levels -this would indeed remove the inequality issue
- AI singularity point making so much of human work obsolete to fast that will trigger a wide systemic meltdown
- AI figuring out that biodiversity is necessary because it makes life robust on planet Earth, but if you can predict all of Earth processes then biodiversity becomes obsolete - lions go into history books with the rest.
note on some short term thing: standard of living for the poor will also be improved enough to keep them complacent and docile is maybe wishful thinking on my part. It s more efficient to improve those living close to 1% (eg. living in America) and to segregate fully the rest a.k.a. China - this is the more realistic scenario