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AI layoffs (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 6 months ago by vga@sopuli.xyz to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 19 points 6 months ago (1 children)

*Several steps later*

Narrator: And that, folks, is how we got the Utopia we live in, by replacing all the work with AI, and letting people enjoy their lives

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Haha. No. Nothing so hopeful. The rich people will get even richer and everyone that used to be working class and middle class die a slow death.

[–] Gutek8134@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Now I wander what would happen if only rich people would survive and I'm sure somebody has already written an sf book about that

[–] django@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 6 months ago

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yeah. That's (arguably) the background scenario to Asimov's book "The Naked Sun" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Naked_Sun

Edit: Ooh, Django already gave a cooler link to the same: https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/10729278

[–] Odinkirk@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Took me a while to track it down, but I think this is the book to which you were referring.

I make no cleans about the stances of this artist; I just saw this strip years ago.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 1 points 6 months ago

Robots sure are long overdue