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free labor AI essay

What Would You Do if Labor Was Free?

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“What would be different if labor was free? Fundamentally thinking of robots as a replacement for humans is thinking too small itcanthink.substack.com/p/what-would...”

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Chris Paxton: What would be different if labor was free? Fundamentally thinking of robots as a replacement for humans is thinking too small itcanthink.substack.com/p/what-would...
tachikoma: i would start a new robot/AI integrated settlement right by the Rockies. if there's no bottleneck on labour then why shouldn't we live as close to natural beauty as we can?
tachikoma: if labour is free there could be more effort put into reducing the ecological footprint, also with a different design principle for the settlement (for example non car centric with all fully autono…
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Ethan Mollick: I am confused about the belief that if open weights eventually dominate it will lead to the collapse of AI. If the Labs lose (which is not happening now), it isn’t because AI was useless: compute i…
apenwarr.ca: Could lead to a dotcom-level crash, which was giant but notably didn’t kill the whole Internet. Hardware providers, they suffered tremendously after the dotcom crash (see Nortel) because their buye…
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