Robots make bad substitutes for poor people because so far we haven’t been able to engineer them to want the sort of general life/existence that allows wealth to be created. Utility functions can’t be oppressed in extractive wealth dispensations. Automated poverty is AI-complete
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Wealth is 'progress' integrated over time and compared over the ensemble whereas progress is 'wealth' integrated over the ensemble and compared over time
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In the final chapter Frase points out that the rich basically already have FALC and that if the entire human race was to be wiped out except the rich we'd actually get communism because there would be no more poor people
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that's basically the Secular Cycles model, no? and wouldn't you say that wealth becomes literally adaptive (in a direct evolutionary sense) when reliable gene editing becomes an option for the richest?
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