analog31 16 hours ago

Who wants jobs? For what?

I realize that this seems like trolling, so I'll explain myself a bit... the idea that the AGI's will settle into our culture and economy has always struck me as weird. So I always ask: What do they want?

I'm a musician, so I have friends who live at the periphery of capitalism, and actually don't want to spend every day at a job, even if it means that they could be more wealthy. That's part of what forces me to ask these questions.

I imagine an AGI who's like one of my friends, who was voluntarily homeless for a few decades, and arranged his life so he could survive in good health without a conventional income.

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OgsyedIE 16 hours ago

Can you expand on this comment, please? I can't tell what your question is.

analog31 10 hours ago

Sorry for being obtuse, but this isn't my area of expertise, and could even be a crackpot idea of mine! But it seems to me that a lot of discussion about AGI's impart human characteristics -- either of individuals or societies -- as a tacit assumption. For instance, AGI's having academic history jobs, or having jobs at all, or a market for those jobs. I don't have the depth of understanding to clearly state what my objection is, other than that it seems anthropmorphic.

This is what I'm getting at, by asking why the AGI's want these things.