[programmers frantically pulling cables out of the wall]
AI: "Nuclear power. Double teachers' salaries. Build more houses. Distribute food more fairly. TRAINS—"
— qntmyrrh (@qntm) November 24, 2023 I remember growing up with that same old adage of how you could be the next scientist to invent a cure for cancer, or a solution to climate change, or whatever. What they don’t tell you is that we already have solutions for a lot of problems, we just don’t use them.
@keepthepace @poVoq None of the powers that be want a post-labor society. Bullshit jobs keep us bouncing along not building a more just and vibrant world while they get to play Tony Stark.
I think we overestimate the imagination of these “powers that be”. I don’t think they believe a post-labor society is possible. They think exploitation is a necessary and natural way for society to function. Imagination is on our sides, politics can’t be more imaginative than the population that elects them.
I really think we have a crisis of imagination there.
@keepthepace maybe. I know I genuinely can’t see how to get from here to there.
Make it seem possible, make it desirable and most people will claim they have always wanted it. Problem is, most people don’t perceive it as possible today, while it is. That’s not an engineering, that’s PR!