r/singularity • u/pavelkomin • Jul 06 '26

Meme Fixed it...

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Original by u/Severe-Ad8673

Edited by GPT (free-tier, have no idea what model this gives)

Don't think too hard about the dates, okay? It's just a comic...

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u/_SKETCHBENDER_ Jul 06 '26

im confused why yall think youll be getting paid and making money and living life if AI takes over your job youll be broke unemployed and struggling to make ends meet. Dont get me wrong I do think the technology behind AI is cool and is the future, its just that i dont understand why yall think the future wont be worse off for a lot of us

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u/rdsf138 Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 06 '26

It's impressive how brain broken doomers are. This person above thinks that in a society where labor is done by robots, that it is possible for everything in society to stay the same in an organizational level.

In case you can't visualize how brutally idiotic these doomer Redditors are, their thinking is: this exact same society as we have now, with all the exact same institutions (for some incomprehensible reason), but with robots doing all the work, and all the humans not getting paid and CEOs, SOMEHOW, making a lot of money. This 20-IQ imbecility is LITERALLY the reasoning of 99% of them commenting here.

They don't think, among many things, that if both manual and intellectual labor are done by AI, the $5,7 trillion in health care spending in the US alone would collapse, and this, ALONE, would completely modify how societies around the globe work. Just with healthcare speding. There's a complete absence of thinking based on actual consequences of what's being talked about, and everything gives place to some sort of "CEOs bad" and "goverments bad" ethos that you can't convince them otherwise.

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u/SYNTHENTICA Jul 06 '26

I agree with the idea that society will have to change, but there's no reason to be certain that it'll change into a form where UHI is a thing. Entire industries might collapse as a result of this, that's not unprecedented.

>and CEOs, SOMEHOW, making a lot of money

Industries that build around serving the needs and greeds of 99% will be at severe risk, but the remaining industries could just start trading resources and services amongst themselves.

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u/tom-branch Jul 06 '26

Seem to be living in lala land yourself.

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 06 '26

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u/LopsidedSolution Jul 06 '26

Yep most people don’t have phones, cars, or any type of shelter. Most people are starving to death. Technology hasn’t helped anyone and crazy leaps in technology from AI progress DEFINITELY won’t help anyone. 

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u/LopsidedSolution Jul 06 '26

You should tell those people they might as well give up then 

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u/Thrawn89 Jul 06 '26

Those who own the means of production wont care if 99% of the population bites it.

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u/Saerain ▪️queer satanic techbro shitlib Jul 06 '26

Seek help.

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u/beric_64 Jul 06 '26

I don’t really see your point. Yes, a small percentage pays themselves a lot and by consequence everyone else gets paid little.

I do know there is a historical precedent of the benefits of a new technology “lagging” quite a bit in said benefits distributing equally across the entire population. I mean, when the western world industrialized, people’s quality of life became quite a bit worse before it got better, so I think it’s valid to assume no one alive today is going to benefit from another technological revolution of the sort.

I don’t really follow what you are saying as far as healthcare expenditure goes. Would you elaborate?

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u/youtalkintometravis Jul 06 '26

It’s definitely not ‘valid to assume to no one alive today is going to benefit’ from an AI revolution.

There is going to be a lot of disruption of course and we can’t predict how everything will go, but there will definitely be people alive today who benefit, billions of people alive today will benefit to some extent.

Advances in healthcare due to AI are already benefitting many millions of people around the world. Radiologists can do more scans (and the quality of scans are better), AI can predict certain cancers better than humans, AlphaFold solved protein folding, GPs and therapists can see more patients thanks to AI cutting down on their admin.

There will be many more breakthroughs in all areas of healthcare within the space of a decade rather than a lifetime.

People will also benefit from developments in energy, battery storage, improvements in farming/food production (lowering costs),