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  • How is this a hard concept? You still have to be a pilot, you just can’t have a policy - tacit or explicit - of only hiring white men.

    Couldn’t you have gone with the idea that it’s “taking jobs from white men?” Then I could point out that there isn’t a limited pool of specific unemployed people you have to pick from, and that even if you give a job to a white man it’s still taking a job from a different white man?




  • we understand the value of resources now, just in your example the availability and the macro-economics of what a resource is changes.

    Crude oil existed for millions of years, but wasn’t a resource until it could be refined. Salt used to be a premium resource, and now is considered a basic one.

    So you mean “will gradually readjust to the new value of new reources”

    Also, we don’t have “total control” over anything now. Crimes go unreported, unprosecuted, unsolved, rebellion and revolution happens across the globe, protests happen, democracy happens.

    You can also choose to start an autonomous community if you want right now - just that most people actually want sewers and toilets and hygiene and warm water and transport and food variety. But if you don’t- you can just go live in the forest.

    Then you pivot to saying “I’m being sarcastic - it wouldn’t be a utopia because we wouldn’t have AI”

    AI is just matrix math on byte encoding. Just like life was pretty good in 1985 before the internet was popularized and marketed, this one tech product does not drastically affect society.

    I would also contend that society isn’t drastically different post-internet. It’s the media of the message that changed, but human communication and structure is still roughly similar to most post-WW2 standards.