Thank you so much for writing this. It’s truly chilling and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it since I heard your interview with Ross Douthat. One thing I don’t understand is your analysis of the impacts on jobs, the economy, and taxes. How does so much wealth get generated if many people lose their jobs? Who’s able to buy anything? And where does tax revenue come from (and to pay UBI) if notoriously tax-avoidant tech companies are the only ones left standing?
Thank you for sharing your sobering thoughts on this. Hard to focus on anything related to regular life when it all seems so trivial compared to the machines rapidly working toward super intelligence and making us all obsolete.