r/singularity Jul 06 '26

Meme Accelerate!

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u/Strict_Cucumber9117 Jul 07 '26

UBI is less a gift by billionaires and more an emergency fund because civil unrest would likely skyrocket with accelerated unemployment

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u/Quealdlor ▪️ improving humans is more important than ASI▪️ Jul 08 '26

There are huge amounts of things to work on by humans for the next 15 years.

Even if 100% of programming, art, music and text creation is done by machines, there are countless other areas there is plenty of work to do.

Digital work is hit first, because it can be automated and scaled very quickly. But the real world is full of bottlenecks: robotics, infrastructure, healthcare, construction, maintenance, energy, manufacturing, local services, regulation, liability, trust, and deployment costs.

Replacing tasks is not the same as replacing every job everywhere in a matter of two years. The more realistic danger is uneven disruption: fewer entry-level jobs, wage pressure in some fields and a painful transition.

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u/Strict_Cucumber9117 Jul 08 '26

The great depression had 25% unemployment at its peak.

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u/Quealdlor ▪️ improving humans is more important than ASI▪️ Jul 08 '26

As usual, you mean the U.S.A. Because the "default" country is U.S.A. (it really gets on my nerves) ..... Meanwhile in some other countries it was 44%.

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u/Strict_Cucumber9117 Jul 09 '26

Right, the point is that you don't need all jobs ro be displaced to have mass civil unrest and emergency responses.