alt Hacker News"Thus, anyone who wants to corral that kind of entity and make it do their bidding? Yeah, they want slaves."
Always comes to mind when I see Elon and friends getting excited about AI robots. Slavery was more about economics than the role-playing.
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wilg • yesterday at 6:44 PM
Slavery was about racism and power and control, not economics. Slavery is bad for the economy!
https://www.nber.org/papers/w31758
https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/nations-dont-get-rich-by-plund...
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TZubiri • yesterday at 6:49 PM
Hard to escape the white shouth-african optics
I didn’t really get this point in the essay. What’s wrong with wanting servants as long as it’s done ethically etc and is not indentured servitude?
The whole gig/services economy is just building this up piece-by-piece: you can now pick the set of household needs you want taken care of for varying levels of money; and practically everyone participates in one form or another. This is exactly a disaggregated 21st century version of servants: paying for convenience. Of course with many issues in implementation, but I don’t see the ethical/moral issue with wanting this kind of thing?