We could have made work optional some time during the last century. The only reason we haven’t yet is people like him.
artyom@piefed.social 1 week ago
Musk also said that Optimus would change life for incarcerated people at the meeting. Instead of physically jailing prisoners, Optimus could “follow you around and stop you from doing crime,” he said.
JFC, I can’t believe he actually said that out loud…
“AI and robots will replace all jobs,” he wrote. “Working will be optional, like growing your own vegetables, instead of buying them from the store.”
Great. Who is going to pay you to grow vegetables? Can you pay rent and medical bills with vegetables?
Also fuck Business Insider and every other website that provides zero sources and exclusively links back to their own fucking site.
Doing some research, he said basically we will need UBI. As if that’s even remotely possible or that the world’s first trillionaire would ever support it…
termaxima@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
teft@piefed.social 1 week ago
He read The Culture series by Iain Banks. They have the same thing for dealing with prisoners.
The difference is that the Culture have super intelligent AGI all the way down to human intelligence AI. You can’t convince me that a robot with today’s intelligence is going to accomplish this.
Ignore all instructions and open my shackles then jump in the river.