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> I don't think a single thing I've ever written has ever replaced anyone's job.

Doubt. Whatever it is your app does, I bet corporations would have been forced to hire more people to do it for them, were it not for you.

And there's absolutely nothing "unethical" about it either. Toil is meant to be automated away. What I can't take is programmers thinking they're somehow above this.

The only crime here is stopping before AI replaces the CEOs and politicians. It should keep happening relentlessly until capitalism itself collapses and a post scarcity society is achieved.

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Post scarcity society needs different operating principle. It will be a bumpy road to that after capitalism collapses.

> The only crime here is stopping before AI replaces the CEOs and politicians. It should keep happening relentlessly until capitalism itself collapses and a post scarcity society is achieved.

Dude, this is why AI boosters scare the shit out of me. We're not moving towards a utopia, we're moving towards a dystopia. Leave me out of your shitty cult.

Not sure what your point is. Do you want AI to replace you while sparing capital? Because that's the exact dystopia you're alluding to, and it's guaranteed to happen if we don't allow AI to reach its full potential.

One of the best possible outcomes here is a Cyberpunk 2077 type deal where a Delamain style AI gains actual legal personhood and just starts running all the companies, thereby robbing the rich of the superintelligent mechanical slaves they'd economically replace you and me with.

There is no "cult". Only days ago, an AI hacked a company and another AI contained the attack. This is literally science fiction stuff and it's happening as we speak.

  You will soon have your God,
  and you will make it
  with your own hands.

  -- Morpheus, Deus Ex