In a quite interesting and thoughtful commentary, Sam Altman talks about some results of technology induced inequality in wealth: http://blog.samaltman.com/ technology-and-wealth- inequality?curator=MediaREDEF This is not hard to prove mathematically, even. The machine-to-labor scaling ratio has been increasing year on year. At some point, the compounded difference becomes so large that any differential productivity gains from getting the work done by humans will completely disappear for most functions for which humanity was being trained for millenia. One of my friends pointed out a political view by Orwell , an equally interesting read. If we think about life and evolution, it is obvious that the history of the world has been a series of gradual accretion of features, interspersed by large scale asymmetrical compounding of differences in a short period of time that results in explosion of living forms in waves. If we believe the current data, society is starting t
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