@wargfranklin Aside: your WHOLE argument rests on the idea that AI can "separate" "humans" from "capitalism."
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@wargfranklin That argument is exactly as fragile as the idea of the Singularity. Without the Singularity you have no case.
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@wargfranklin You're missing same angle every version of this argument has since luddites: humans develop new wants+needs from each other
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@wargfranklin It's the drum
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@wargfranklin If tech advances enough, they won't need to.
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@wargfranklin But don't want to rehas arguments I'll be making more carefully elsewhere. Watch my twitter/blog for the new site announcement
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@wargfranklin the tl;dr (full version is 30k words) is that tech steadily replaces rivalrous goods with non-rivalrous.
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@wargfranklin That's your theory of tech, not mine. My theory is that tech steadily removes the need to have war at all. Takes time though.
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