Not that it's any comfort, but I think you're a little early, but I guess that depends on your definitions for the classes and the state of the art in robotics.
We do seem to be heading in this direction though. Large changes in the socioeconomic structure of society are always... difficult...for those on the wrong side of the shift. Additionally, we have other problems, as the move towards ever more capable and autonomous robots are something with no analog in history, plus the breaking of the last ~15,000 years of climactic stability and continued degredation of the biosphere.
My clock is winding down. I am concerned, as anyone with a properly working brain should be. My personal goals in my 'golden' years, are to live as conscientiously as I can, in what comfort I can manage and to preserve as much of my modest 'wealth' (not wealthy by Western standards) as I can to pass down to my heirs, who will not have the same advantages as I did. This of course is not entirely under my control...the future is uncertain.
As difficult as it will be to accomplish, I think that the young will need to steer towards those careers that will be the last to fall to AI/robotics. Sadly... criminally...the US is not preparing for the shift. It's almost like a plot from the first of the Kingsman movies...let the proles kill themselves off, while we hide and when it's over... we'll have the world to ourselves...😳
There are a couple of things (maybe more!) I've heard lately that could work as counter currents to impending nothingness. One is the idea that disappointed white collar workers are increasingly identifying as "workers" and could move toward solidarity with all workers. And that they will expect politics to respond to their pain. The second idea is that access to the internet and AI is access to information and at least some assistance with learning. That second thing depends on access, tho, and after watching Iran and China block access to the internet indefinitely, and knowing that free use of AI costs tech companies a lot of money, I'm aware we shouldn't be taking that access for granted.
There is one variable you did not touch on, Umair. AI. From all that I am reading about it — including the warnings from those who built it, we are in great peril going forward. The robber barons who currently exist will be subject to the same fates as the rest of us…whatever the AI gods have in mind as their power increases exponentially in the next few years. How bout giving us your take on that?!
It's been said that feudalism is an attractor state, with other systems degrading naturally to it, but no paths outward.
The last feudalistic society was ended by a plague that killed half the population, raising the value of labour so high in the survivors that a new middle class emerged. Not a revolution, nor an evolution, but a cataclysm.
And even that only made it as far up the ladder as monarchy. It took another cataclysm in 1914-1918, a senseless world war that killed off half the young men of a generation, to bring about a shift to republics.
I doubt we have any way to escape the darkness in our lifetimes.
I see what you describe here. First heard about it years ago now from the stones in the desert silence, speaking of the end - the end. Since then, it has, in fact unfolded as they described, slower than I imagined but still, unmistakably THE end. There is something behind it though, I can also see, a return to a state of being, long absent from time. The sentinels have flown, the sword is extinguished, the morning sun breaks on the Garden.
I agree about the general direction.. some version of these things is very plausible. The wild card is climate change. Maybe that can stop the parasites, since the masses don’t seem to be there yet
Not that it's any comfort, but I think you're a little early, but I guess that depends on your definitions for the classes and the state of the art in robotics.
We do seem to be heading in this direction though. Large changes in the socioeconomic structure of society are always... difficult...for those on the wrong side of the shift. Additionally, we have other problems, as the move towards ever more capable and autonomous robots are something with no analog in history, plus the breaking of the last ~15,000 years of climactic stability and continued degredation of the biosphere.
My clock is winding down. I am concerned, as anyone with a properly working brain should be. My personal goals in my 'golden' years, are to live as conscientiously as I can, in what comfort I can manage and to preserve as much of my modest 'wealth' (not wealthy by Western standards) as I can to pass down to my heirs, who will not have the same advantages as I did. This of course is not entirely under my control...the future is uncertain.
As difficult as it will be to accomplish, I think that the young will need to steer towards those careers that will be the last to fall to AI/robotics. Sadly... criminally...the US is not preparing for the shift. It's almost like a plot from the first of the Kingsman movies...let the proles kill themselves off, while we hide and when it's over... we'll have the world to ourselves...😳
There are a couple of things (maybe more!) I've heard lately that could work as counter currents to impending nothingness. One is the idea that disappointed white collar workers are increasingly identifying as "workers" and could move toward solidarity with all workers. And that they will expect politics to respond to their pain. The second idea is that access to the internet and AI is access to information and at least some assistance with learning. That second thing depends on access, tho, and after watching Iran and China block access to the internet indefinitely, and knowing that free use of AI costs tech companies a lot of money, I'm aware we shouldn't be taking that access for granted.
There is one variable you did not touch on, Umair. AI. From all that I am reading about it — including the warnings from those who built it, we are in great peril going forward. The robber barons who currently exist will be subject to the same fates as the rest of us…whatever the AI gods have in mind as their power increases exponentially in the next few years. How bout giving us your take on that?!
It's been said that feudalism is an attractor state, with other systems degrading naturally to it, but no paths outward.
The last feudalistic society was ended by a plague that killed half the population, raising the value of labour so high in the survivors that a new middle class emerged. Not a revolution, nor an evolution, but a cataclysm.
And even that only made it as far up the ladder as monarchy. It took another cataclysm in 1914-1918, a senseless world war that killed off half the young men of a generation, to bring about a shift to republics.
I doubt we have any way to escape the darkness in our lifetimes.
I see what you describe here. First heard about it years ago now from the stones in the desert silence, speaking of the end - the end. Since then, it has, in fact unfolded as they described, slower than I imagined but still, unmistakably THE end. There is something behind it though, I can also see, a return to a state of being, long absent from time. The sentinels have flown, the sword is extinguished, the morning sun breaks on the Garden.
Humanoid robots
A vision softly creeping
Darkness, my old friend
At what point do the various "victorious" groups turn on each other in a fight to the death?
I thought I could never keep a child safe after what I experienced in life and I was correct. It’s a mess.
I agree about the general direction.. some version of these things is very plausible. The wild card is climate change. Maybe that can stop the parasites, since the masses don’t seem to be there yet
Any idea when you’ll have the portfolio update ready?