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The 'Effective Accelerationism' movement doesn't care if humans are replaced by AI as long as they're there to make money from it (www.businessinsider.com)

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (14 children)

I don’t understand. The economy is not only driven by production (workers/labor), but also by consumption (people, also workers).

Let’s say AI can perform the production side without any human labor. That eliminates the workers (who are also the consumers). So, what do you get when you remove most/all consumption from the economy and are left with just AI?

[+] [email protected] -19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

A human surplus. This on steroids possibly?

until there isn't a human surplus in the consideration of those who manipulate the easily led...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Is this some satire that's gone over my head?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Well, what I seen this image as was the classic divide and conquer strategy of the capitalist classes against the working class and/or arbitrary race category to enable them to control and/or murder at will.

However, this image is actually a complete gas lighting exercise in using toxic characteristics from capitalism to describe communism. I didn't notice the hammer and sickle, which to be fair makes no fucking sense...

The relevance to the above post was really trying to play on

"The Production of too many useful things results in too many useless people"

which I take as a satirical poke at the deficiencies of capitalism, although it's of unknown origin as far as I know..

If automation does reach a point where labour isn't needed, then it may well encourage the likes of Murdoch et al to intensify the encouragement of class war.

Sorry, I clearly don't pay enough attention to the shit I post :(

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